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ARNF RlCKERT AND DAVID SCHMIDT
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Carolina comings and goings
board
The University "
received an early
Christmas eift
Thursday. Its OpiniOII
Santa Claus is the
graduating class of 1986, and though the
shopping list was long, and the toy store
full of worthless little things begging to
be picked up only to fall apart once
received, Santa knew just what was
needed.
The $175,000 stocking stuffer the
Senior Class plans to present to the
University is truly a gift that will keep
on giving. By donating more than
$100,000 in scholarship funds, as well
as an ambitious building project, the
Class of 1986 leaves a legacy of ded
ication to strengthening the foundation
the University rests on, the cultivation
of minds.
The theme of the gift is "Entranceways
to Carolina," and the intent is to ensure
that future generations will always be
able to enter what seniors leave behind
in May. The title is both literal and
symbolic, involving the construction of
gates to the campus on three sites and
the establishment of two scholarships for
rising seniors and a teaching award. The
Senior Class is to be commended for
the plan, which avoids the grand
monuments that past Senior Classes
have erected to themselves in favor of
a quiet commitment to the needs of the
University.
Students as well as teachers have
always entered the University with an
intent to broaden their minds and
expand the horizons of thought. The
scholarship funds will ensure that able
students are not shut out from the
University because of economic barriers.
Similarly, the gates are less boundaries
than markers to the threshold of a special
place, a place where education is
generously offered and readily accepted.
Although the expected kinks have yet
to be worked out, seniors have a right
to be proud of their gift. One might
question the need for three markers as
opposed to one, or many, but the
admirable goals and modest apprach of
the, Senior Class overshadow any such
objections. It has chosen to beautify both
the intellectual and physical environ
ment of the campus. It is a rare gift that
maintains its value over a long period
of time, and the Senior Class gift is such
a one.
Editorialists' columns
(This is a) Ramblin' Wreck
Our Tar Heels meet Duke tomorrow
in one of the season's biggest football
rivalries. But let's face it, the upcoming
basketball season fills our minds. The
hoop-dudes are coming, are slamming-jamming-siss-boom-bamming,
are here.
And the ACC must be snowbirding, it's
so many poll-inary points ahead of
everyone else, and n'e'en a hook shot
yet hooped.
Consider this (I get chills!): Those war
damn Yellow Jackets of that clear-whiskey-drinking
engineer-torial tech U
in Atlanta, GA, is styling like nobody's
business especially theirs. The Ram
bling Wreck is cranking gold in four out
of five pollster's surveys (or close to it
anyhows) setting where up only the god
kings like the M Street Towns and
tenacious Heelacious fellows from the
good country were previously allowed.
I mean, Georgia Tech a basketball
power? But the ACC does something to
participatory schools, turning tyros into
Tyranosoros. The fellows get a mean
look with their teeth all set a grind and
go "Grrrh," like "Anytime, Anyhow,
Anywhere." And kazowee! Georgia
Tech has a basketball program.
Coach Bobby Cremins hits paydirt
like Jed Clampett, whips opponents like
Wonderdog and in four years has turned
a 4-23 group of stoneage Romeos into
Boola, boola
New Haven, Conn., home of great
pizza and bad football, won't give in to
criticism. Everyone in the Elm City
knows that what makes pizza and
football palatable even to the most
discriminating tastes is what goes on top.
No, this writer admits that nothing really
goes On top of a football game except
an air of. . . oh . . . of nostalgia.
If nostalgia makes a game great, then
this weekend marks the most stunning
match of gridiron glory ever to grace
100 yards of grass. What, no Astroturf?
Ivy-Leaguers have too much style for
that. You see, this is the Yale-Harvard
Game, where the labels read Tangueray,
Brooks Brothers and Executive Vice
President. A little bit of real mud
mingled with authentic blood is the
essence of the sport. Those who don't
have the strength to stomach messiness
should stay at home and watch Nebraska
and Oklahoma's football-mutants grunt
on a clean layer of green plastic.
Style comes with age. The Yale
Harvard game is simply and elegantly
calledThe Game. No other rivalry can
claim that title, as the Ivy-Leaguers
existed first. Some 109 years old, The
Game is the grand-daddy of football
matches. When you're that old, the
playing itself is rickety, but mere survival
has earned The Game a respect that mid
western upstarts lack.
Let's look at the statistics. It just so
happens that Yale has more Ail
Americans than any other team. No
matter that it hasn't had one since 1972.
When you're that old, the present doesn't
a "Mind-if-we-darice-wif-yo-dates" col
lective doing the window scene with a
Juliet who resides in Dallas. Sweet,
sweet! Awesome dude!
And didn't we mention Carolina? and
the Pukezoids? Dean's Heel-a-men are
firing dragon's breath down the bum
blebee necks (necks?), as the pollsters
rank us consensually about third.
Michigan's the chill that separates these
sparring rivals. Rivals? Well, the baby
blue blood is out for no more anemic
stategic defeatics (0-3 last year) against
the Yellow pups. "Brake his hand, man,"
someone shouts after Mark Price
launches a long-distance firebomber.
And Duke maybe don't look so puke
(what they do is their business) leaning
over Carolingian shoulders. Since when
have ACC teams club-sandwiched the
Heels, much less in the national Top
Five! Then N.C. State and Maryland
filling slots in the second 10 of the Top
20? We're talking competition. Only the
Beatles have so dominated the charts.
This year doctors will be telling
cocaine users to watch Jefferson Pilot
as treatment. Don't it make you feel like
a kid with a new Tonka truck.
Ill take any mid-court complimentar
ies youVe got.
LOUIS CORRIG AN
READER FORUM
The free market wo
To the editors:
Allen Taylor's defense of Amer
ican investment in South Africa is
based on such blind faith in the
power of the free market to solve
decades-old social and political
questions that even economic con
servatives may have trouble accept
ing his argument. Certainly anyone
with some grasp of current condi
tions in South Africa will be hard
pressed to accept the idea that by
strengthening our economic ties we
can help bring about the end of
apartheid rule. Taylor is so focused
on the spector of "chaos and
violence leading to bloody revolu
tion" that he ignores the fact that
only major political reforms leading
to self-determination for the black
majority will prevent this scenario
from actually taking place.
The reforms that Taylor cites as
"tremendous progress" away from
apartheid are at best tiny steps
toward the kind of change that is
long overdue in South Africa. True,
there are hundreds of black trade
unions; but Taylor does not
acknowledge that half of the
500,000 unionized black workers
matter. Dwell on the past, and Yale and
Harvard have the finest teams in the
nation. Well, don't they?
Keep looking at the stats. Yale and
Harvard have more Rhodes scholars
than any other football team. Now,
that's class. Just imagining that the guys
down on the field are a bunch of future
investment bankers gives the game an
air that can't be captured on television.
That's why Ivy League games aren't
televised. They're too subtle. But those
in the know are certain that the Gatorade
is spiked with Tangueray and the
coaches don't write out plays as X's and
O's on a chalkboard, but work them out
on a chess board. Ill bet all those
fumbles and missed tackles are planned
. How can well-executed football be
interesting, seeing as nothing different
ever happens?
Two more great rivals are playing this
weekend, this time on home territory:
UNC vs. Duke. This is not The Game,
and it's not going to get national
coverage. What makes this game great
is not so much the execution of perfect
football Still, this game will be rich
because of our feelings about it. The
power of a game is in the intensity of
the rivalry the sense of history. It can't
be captured on television, but it's there.
The UNC-Duke game is a match with
style. Although the ACC title hardly
depends on its outcome, it will be great
once we conjure up a bit of ... oh . . .
nostalgia.
SALLY PONT
belong to organizations that are
actively involved in anti-aparthied
politics, perhaps because they see a
need for political rights to make
their union membership something
of any real value. The Indian and
Coloured parliaments established in
1983 were seen from the start as
token institutions created to divide
the non-white opposition into
factions. The failure of this strategy
is shown by the abysmally low level
of voter participation in the elec
tions that chose representatives for
these houses (some members were
seated on the basis of a total of six
percent of the vote in their districts).
Moreover, Coloreds are joining the
anti-government resistance move
ment in such numbers that the
South African government
extended its emergency police
decree to the largely Colored Cape
Town area last month; the Washing
ton Post noted this act as a sign
that "if the government cannot sell
this community on its 'reform'
program, it cannot sell anyone,
especially not the black majority."
South African blacks cannot vote
in national elections, but only in
"homelands" where many of them
do not live. The government has
accepted the presence of urban
blacks not as a recognition of their
right to live where they chose, but
because use of the black work force
as a ready supply of cheap labor
requires allowing workers to live
nearer to their workplaces than the
banrustan system permits. In other
words, this concession is one of
economic expediency, not of pol
itical reform.
It is hard to see any logical
rationale for Taylor's argument that
greater foreign investment in South
Africa will help to correct any of
these inequities. More black have
been arrested, imprisoned, and
banned during the past five years
of "constructive engagement" than
ever before. The extreme right wing
of the Afrikaaner government has
gained strength in recent elections,
making any kind of real concession
by the government even less likely
than before. Retaining our financial
stake in South Africa signals to the
rulers there that we are essentially
on their side, at least enough to back
them with our investments, and tells
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black South Africans that the
United States does not see enough
wrong in the apartheid system to
feel impelled to renounce its role as
a financier of that system. Taylor
should note that some actors with
plenty of economic insight have
recently shown a lack of confidence
in the South African government's
capability to make a sucessful
transition to democratic rule. The
international banking community
has drastically reduced the availibity
of credit to South Africa in the past
year, and South African business
men recently defied government
orders and met with exiled African
National Congress leaders in Zam
bia to discuss possible grounds for
a settlement. These moves hint that
even some economists do not
believe in the market as the best tool
for creating a stable democratic
society. Taylor ignores the impor
tance of divestment as a political act
the clearest statement we can
make that we do not support and
. will not uphold apartheid.
Jenny Weeks
dept. of political science
Counting
your
blessings
To the editors:
Reading the Nov. 8 DTH pg. 3
article "Holocaust will cause prob
lems," the impact is certainly
lessened by the article to it's left,
"Chapel Hill site for new hotel." For
every little bit of bad news there is
also some balancing good . . . It's
also nice to know that we are not
a "target area;" I suppose I am even
safer in Carrboro than I would be
in Chapel Hill. Carrboro, may in
fact, be a "secondary host area" and
eligible to receive a motel.
Barry Jaeger
Carrboro
Some spectators worse than spectacle itself
To the editors:
In response to "Holy Hughbert's"
preaching in the Pit, I listened to
him and his colleagues for a hour ?
and a half Tuesday afternoon and
was thoroughly disgusted, not by
Hughbert and Co., but by many
students' relentless ignorant
mockery. Personally, I was not in
accordance with all of his religious
beliefs nor his provocative "sinner"
type method of conveying them.
However, it was disappointing to
see many students heckle Dr.
Lindley with intentional idiotic
suppositions instead of attempting
to border upon any degree of
intelligence. This only unveils
publicly what imbeciles they really
are. For example, when Dr. Lindley
asked in Biblical reference who
Jeremiah was, some ignoramus
chanted, "Jeremiah was a bullfrog!"
Touche, bud, you're a real man now.
Sure, you have a right to speak, so
use it constructively! If you do not
agree with him, form an intelligent
question to counter bis rhetoric.
Think, people! ,
I am by no means a religious
authority, nor is Dr. Lindley by any
means God (or the best "orator in
the world), but I can honor a man
who has the integrity and guts to
stand up for what he or she believes,
especially amidst such unneccessry
and ignorant criticism., Truthfully,
how many of you hecklers could do
the same?
Tomlmbus
Connor
Saving your way of life
To the editors:
In response to Jeff Bryant's letter
("Family farms no longer worth
government subsidies," Nov. 12),
you present a lot of nice statistics,
Mr. Bryant, but I intend to look
at the emotional side of the issue,
which you failed to discuss because
you were too busy making sure you
had all the numbers straight. This
country started out with family
farms, and today many people are
turning their backs on them.
Your reference to farmers as
"whiny and self-pitying" was totally
uncalled for and showed how truly
narrow-minded you are. Would you
call yourself self-pitying if you were
trying to save your way of life, the
only way you have of putting food
on the table? I think not. All farmers
are trying to do in making their
plight known is to tell the American
people, just as some textile workers
do, that they are in trouble. Whiny,
. they are not. Hardworking, yes. I
do not suppose you know what it
is like to get up at 2:30 a.m. to milk
cows, work in the field, then milk
these cows again that afternoon, a
routine that cannot be skipped even
in below-freezing temperatures.
Technology is replacing the fam
ily farm. Maybe that is good in some
ways. But it is easy for you to sit
there and say that the government
should stop subsidizing the farms.
I am sure that you have a nice job
that pays well. For thousands of
others, however, this statement hits
home way too close. I know. I am
speaking from experience. My
father has worked hard all his life
and is now trying to save his farm.
He is succeeding at this. Others are
not quite so lucky. People with the
kind of "pull it out from under
them" attitude like yours don't
deserve the milk you pour on you
cereal every morning milk that
hundreds have broken their backs
to produce for you.
Connie Bouldin
Kingswood Apts.
SLS worth every p enny
To the editors:
Have you ever begrudged
paying your student fee? I have
at least I used to up until
about a month ago. I was one
of the many unfortunate people
who did not get a parking sticker,
and therefore, had to find alter
native ways of getting to school.
My alternative method was to go
down to Kroger's plaza, park
there arid catch the bus to
campus. Well, unknown to me,
the manager of Kroger Plaza
(who shall remain nameless)
decided that the parking lot was
for patrons only in other
words, she decided that it was
a private parking lot. So about
a month and a half after the start
of school, I returned to Kroger
to find that my car had been
towed. No warning, no signs, no
car! I soon found out where it
had been towed to and retrieved
it paying of course the towing
charge. I was so upset by this
that I decided to call Student
Legal Services for help to see
if there was anything I could do.
The lawyer I talked with was
Dorothy Bernholz, a warm,
friendly and competent lawyer.
Not only did she take my case,
but she also comforted me
gave me the feeling that there
really was someone who cared
about the "little people." The
final outcome was that the
manager had to reimburse me for
the towing charge and taxi
charge, too. Without Student
Legal Services this would never
have been possible. Begrudge
paying my student fees? not
me, never again.
Elizabeth A. Palmer
Chapel Hill
It's a small world, after all
By SCOTT MARTIN
The Eifel Tower, Buckingham Palace, a
Venetian canal, the mosques of Constantinople,
a cream tea in an English village, the Eiger, the
Palace of Versailles, Mozart's birthplace, the
midnight sun in north Sweden.
You may have heard or seen many of these
places through photographs, your television set
or friends and parents who have had the
opportunity of visiting some of them. Your
reaction may have varied according to the
description given, but surely there was something
inside you that wanted to be there to experience
the places you may have just seen or heard about.
It's time to stop dreaming and get to Europe
to see what is getting people so excited. When
you are a student, it is a very different place
than both you or your parents might think. On
an underground train in London, it's amusing
to see the difference between the middle-aged
tourist and the student who is seeing Europe
for the first time and is in the middle of his
first adventure, temporarily away from the
security of home life.
The middle-aged tourists are worn out by
noon, they complain about the heat, still talk
about their suburban life, worry about eating
and then will not touch any of the local delicacies
for fear of adding a few too many inches to their
waistlines. The Londoners in the same carriage
know what they are the moment they walk onto
the train, even if the man in the group is not
wearing a baseball cap and chewing a cigar. The
Londoners turn their noses up and, unfairly,
think to themselves: "Bloody American tourists."
The only basis for satisfaction is that the tourists
are helping the balance of trade by spending so
much while they are in Britain.
The American student, however, can sit
unnoticed and be as conspicuous as the faded
seat covers when they are being sat on. You can
sit there and not have scorn poured on you
because people in London generally like students
and are more welcoming to them than they are
to older people. You don't have to shed your
lzod raincoat or have your hair dyed pink to
fit in.
Undoubtedly, most of Europe, especially in
places of great interest, is geared toward making
money out of tourists. However, there seems to
be two levels of money-making. There is the
tourism that is set up for those who want to
see specific places in a certain amount of time,
and there is the Europe that is set up for those
who want more independence in their itinerary
than a set tour of Europe will give them. The
latter is the one that of most interest to the student
who is hoping to see something of Europe.
Special passes can give unlimited travel on
Europe's extensive and well-organized rail system
for a price that is an incredibly good value. In
most towns and cities, there are several hostels
where students can get a good night's sleep in
the center of town without having to pay too
much; a recognized student card will give reduced
prices at most places of interest. Frugal shopping
enables the student traveler to eat well and still
have some money left for those big blowouts
at expensive restaurants. The financial side of
a trip to Europe may seem daunting at first,
but it is not impossible to overcome. Many of
my friends who went to Europe this summer
were able to find jobs that paid them enough
to live on. The vicious competition that cxiu
between trans-Atlantic air carriers means that
there are always cheap flights to be had for those
who are willing to shop around. A summer
working here and missing some trips to the beach
will help get you on the road to securing the
financial means for a trip to Europe.
If you eventually find the money and you go,
you will come back richly rewarded. The two
times that I have been over to the continent,
I was dull and only visited France, West
Germany, Greece, Switzerland and Italy. I made
a few small and insignificant Ventures into the
vast array of what Europe has to offer the young
traveler.
You don't even have to travel too far to enjoy
it. There is much to be said for staying at one
place for a long period, whether this be to study
or even to work. UNC runs many fine programs
to good institutions throughout Europe.
Any trip to Europe will give more memories
and fun than any vacation or trip will ever give
the time to start thinking and planning about
the possibilities is now, while you are still at a
university and have those long vacations to do
so. As soon as you find a job, your vacation
time will plummet as do your chances of
challenging Europe with that youthful voracity
that students have. You have the choice of sitting
outside a tent in the middle of the Alps watching
the setting sun turn the high snows golden, or
sitting outside a bar in Myrtle Beach watching
the beer cans accumulate. Go to Europe and,
more importantly, don't let yourself become
middle-aged before your time.
Scott Martin is a sophomore comparative
literature and creative writing major from
London, England.