8The Daily Tar HeelMonday, January 27. 1986
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.W iror of editorial freedom
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ANJITTA MH I I N
Jam t Olson
Jami Whiti:
Jii.i.CIi.riu:r
Loriita Grantham
Production I'Jlliir
Ciiiicrsilf Editor
NcUS Editor
State and Natioital i'Jitnv
City Editor
Tom Camp
Face-to-forum
The campus elec
tion campaigns
begin in earnest
this week as the
round of dorm and
board
opinion
campuswide candidate forums gets
under way. And yeah, yeah, it's an oldie,
but - we're all for 'em.
There will be two forums a night
tonight through Thursday and one more
Sunday afternoon. Seven will be dorm
forums, one will be for the whole
campus, and the ninth will be the ever
volatile Black Student Movement
forum. Please refer to the schedule
printed inside on page 3.
Direct questioning of candidates is far
more substantive than campaign fliers
and posters and far more illuminating
than statements and interviews printed
in The Daily Tar Heel. Voters can ask
questions about the particular issues that
concern them questions that might
not always be discussed in the news
paper. They can make assessments of
the candidates ability to handle them
selves under pressure, their articulation,
their understanding of the positions they
are seeking. More importantly, for one
of the few times in the campaign, the
candidates are assembled together and
voters can measure them against one
another.
Forums provide the main opportunity
for this sort of face-to-face confronta
tion. Yet the past attendance record
shows that they fall far short of fulfilling
Editorialist's column :
Honorable disarmamentions
-Another supposedly tough weekened
of basketball passed for the Heels and
the question you're all asking is, "What's
going on in Russia these days. There
were the peace talks, then Gorbachev
got on the tube, and then shouts of
Disarm! Disarm! like the Venus de Milo.
But do they have mixers on Thursday
nights too?" Here's the scoop.
MOCKBA, JAN. 23 (PU) Soviet
peoples are real people too, reports say.
Just a few years ago, that darling little
schoolgirl Samantha Smith wrote a
letter to Yuri before he dropped off. She
thought that maybe we could all be
friends, and the whole thing charmed
Soviet Leader Andropov to no end. He
had her over for tea (she being too young
for Smirnoff) and everyone liked her
quite a lot. Bombs and blue jeans weren't
the only thing Made in the U.S.A.
Samantha seemed headed for a political
career like no other, before her death
in a plane crash last August.
But Sam has left a legacy. The Soviets
think she was peachy-keen, the cutest
little girl since Shirley Temple. And
they're going nuts to honorher memory.
So far, a diamond, a flower, a poem,
a book and a street have been named
for her. (And to think it took Liverpool
over 10 years to honor the Fab Four
with their own streets!) Now comes a
Samantha stamp (CAMAHTA CMNT)
worth five kopecks, or 7.5c. Then there's
this international friendship club and a
museum in her memory, and 100 Soviet
schools competing to be renamed for the
little girl who didnt know what dancing
had to do with politics. Show, that to
the Gipper.
Meanwhile, ABC is going on with a
$30-$34 million mini-series called Amer
ica. According to this prime-time mono
drona, those Moscow girls aren't knock
ing them out any more, and the Kremlin
To "the dth degrco-
This is the way .
Dave explained last Monday why we
chose many months ago not to endorse
any candidate(s) for editorship of the
DTH. We have also chosen not to endorse
in the race for the presidency of the
Carolina Athletic Association (incumbent
Mark Pavao is running unopposed after
a highly successful year). But the paper will
be endorsing candidates in the remaining
major races for student body president
and Resident Housing Association
president.
A round robin of interviews will be
carried out Saturday by the paper's news
and editorial staff comprising me and
Dave, our editorial writers and each of the
I 'Si! j, l
David Schmidt
Lorry Williams
Li-i- Roberts
. Elizabeth Ellen
Marymelda Hall
Larry Childress
Hack Pj);c Editor
Business Editor ''
Sports Editor
Arts Editor
Features Editor
Photography Editor
their potential for reaching the campus.
No more than 25 people were at the
STOW forum last year. No more than
20 attended the forum at Hinton James,
which was for residents of both Hinton
James and Ehringhaus. At the Union
forum, which was for all graduate
students and off-campus undergradu
ates, there were no more than 80. At
the Connor forum, which usually
concludes the forum schedule and is the
best-attended, there were no more than
100 students. And all of those figures
include large proportions of campaign
workers of the various candidates.
Thus, of the 5,000 or more students
who voted last year, 500 at most took
advantage of opportunities to assess and
challenge the candidates. That means
that 90 percent of the voters are much '
less well-informed than they could be;
that could at times damage the validity
of the democratic process.
We encourage and advise you to
attend one or more of the forums this
week. There will be one forum for each
of the seven on-campus CGC districts.
The Young Democrats, College Repub
licans and North Carolina Student
Legislature will sponsor an all-campus
forum Tuesday night at 6:30 in the Great
Hall, at which all students will be
welcome to observe or ask questions.
So, do the candidates, yourselves and
the student body a favor and take time
this week to go to a forum. Student
government will be the stronger for it.
fellows want to try some Jack Daniels.
Just as a horse is a horse (of course,
of course), the Soviets want to and have
taken over America. The epic depicts life
in these brave new etas unis.
ABC thought it over after the Soviet
Foreign Minister informed its Moscow
bureau chief that things could be made
very difficult if the project were begun.
Then Wednesday, ABC spokesman
Brandon Stoddard stuck out his tongue
and defended the "inherent dramatic
quality of the material." Only financing,
not peace talks, could disrupt ABC's
intention to go through with the project,
he said. Insiders report, though, that
ABC's strong stance is in response to
recent movie pirateering by the Soviets.
An edited version of Rambo, portraying
Americans as simply stupid, not anti
Soviet, has met with box-office success
in Moscow.
Pirateers also found success with a
slightly edited version of The Color
Purple, titled The Color Red. Only one
line has been changed "I think it pisses
God off if you walk by the color red
in a field somewhere and don't notice
it." The Soviet news agency TASS
reports this does not indicate a loosening
of the restraint on religion. "It just means
" that if there is a God, we're damn sure
He's a Leninist."
In other news, 22-year-old world chess
champion Gary Kasparov accepted a
rematch for next summer with arch-rival
and scallywag Anatoly Karpov, who lost
the title last fall. Both London and
Leningrad have offerred to host the
rematch. Smith Center director Steve
Camp said Chapel Hill had made no
offer for the match because, "I just don't
think the interest is there." So there you
are.
LOUIS CORRIGAN
desK editors named on the back-page
masthead (see above). After completing the
interviews, well discuss each candidate's
platform and experience. And at last, each
staffer present will cast an equal vote.
In fairness to all, the endorsements will
weigh each candidate's merits and demer
its, seeking to persuade readers through
argumentation rather than through mere
statements of support. Since there can be
no perfect candidate, any endorsement will
necessarily be a relative endorsement. So
until next week, hold tight and get, out
to a forum or two. Don't just rely on us.
See for yourself. ARNERICKERT
READER FORUM
CAA settles on 'experimen tal' ' p olicy
To the editors:
Distribution of student basket
ball tickets this season has proved
to be a rather interesting but
difficult exercise. Ideally, we're
looking for the system that will
please all of the people all of the
time; realistically, well be happy
with one that is convenient for most
of the people most of the time.
Many students, the ticket office staff
and the Carolina Athletic Associ
ation ticket people have spent
countless hours debating the merits
and problems of the system and
other options available to us. I am
pleased to report that the elusive
"ideal" system is finally coming into
focus.
Before 1 get to the good part, let
me describe some of the difficulties
weVe faced. First, nobody really
knows what the demand for bas
ketball tickets among the student
body is. For every Smith Center
distribution to date, there have been
tickets left to be distributed the
following Monday. In the case of
Notre Dame and Clemson (good
games, in my opinion), there were
2,000 and 3,000 tickets left, respec
tively. On top of that, there were
still tickets left the following Thurs
day, which is when unclaimed
tickets go on sale to the public. This
what portion
Ab ortion
To the editors:
not everyone shares her views? It
is fine to have a particular set of
beliefs but not at the expense of an
open mind. Self-righteous people
who fail to perceive the difference
between having an opinion and
inflicting that opinion on others
need to take a moment to think
about the ideals of personal freedom
upon which this country was
founded.
It would be interesting to discover
As a supporter of the pro-choice
movement, I take vehement excep
tion to the remarks made by Anna
Critz ("13th anniversary marks
horror," Jan. 22) regarding the Roe
vs. Wade decision. I strongly believe
' that abortion is a matter of personal
choice. Who is Ms. Critz to decide
what is best for all' women in all
situations? Does she not realize that
every situation is different and that
Y advisors comment on
By GEORGE LENS IN G
and MARIA YOUNG
After the announcement by Zenobia Hatcher
Wilson, director of the Campus Y, in early
October that George Gamble, associate director,
would be dismissed Jan.! 6, 1986, Les Garner,
chairman of the Advisory Board of the Campus
Y appointed a Committee on Administration.
This committee is charged in the bylaws of the
Advisory Board with serving as a mediating body
in all matters involving personnel disputes at the
Campus Y. The committee was to consist of the
student co-presidents Kim Reynolds and
Roger Orstad Garner and the two of us as
co-chairs. v
On Nov. 19, after a meeting of the committee,
we agreed to invite Hatcher-Wilson to a breakfast
meeting the following morning at the home of
George Lensing. The two of us and Gamble
would try to work out with her terms that might
lead to the reinstatement of Gamble as. associate
director. Hatcher-Wilson, however, declined the
invitation to meet.
On the following Sunday evening, however,
Hatcher-Wilson contacted us, stating that she
wished to make a proposal for reinstating
Gamble. Because of the basketball game with
UCLA, not all of us could be contacted until
11 p.m. Hatcher-Wilson; Gamble; Edith Wig
gins, associate vice chancellor for Student
Affairs; and the two of us met at about 11:30
at the home of Maria Young. All of the
participants freely agreed to meet under these
unusual circumstances. Vice Chancellor Donald
Boulton was not informed that the meeting was
to take place, nor were any parts of the proposals
discussed with him by any of the participants
before the meeting.
Hatcher-Wilson proposed that a letter of
resignation dated May 15, 1986, be signed by
Gamble as a condition for his reinstatement until
May 15 and that the existence of such a letter
not be publicly disclosed. The two of us and
Wiggins discussed at length why such a proposal
was unacceptable. The goal of both of us was-
is indeed the second difficulty. All
unclaimed tickets go on sale to the
public the Thursday after distribu
tion. This fact prevented us from
instituting a fully random system,
because we didn't want to see the
cards, can collect four tickets. The
distribution would then continue
the following Monday until all
tickets were gone. If tickets were
gone. If tickets were still available
on Thursday, then the
public sitting in better seats than have a chance to purchase them;
students.. presumably though, we're talking
The policy was designed primar- about the highest seats if any at
ily to avoid selling the better all. We also see room for some block
students seats to the public, and it seating. This is the tentative plan
did. The camping out we attracted for next season. Whether we actu
for Duke and Georgia Tech was ally adopt it depends on the feed
unintentional and unfortunate, back we get from you, and the
Well never know what portion of results of the few changes we're
the lines was due to the policy and going to make in the final three
was due to the mag
distributions of this season.
nitude of the games. We witnessed
with Notre Dame and Clemson
(where there was virtually no camp
ing out) that the game does come
into play. Philosophically, we've
decided that the "perfect" system is
not one that rewards the first
student in line with the best seat in
the house. Finally, permitting
students to claim two tickets with
proper ID has been successful, and
is certainly an added convenience.
When we put all the factors into
the equation we saw a radically
different distribution. We saw a
system in which the best 6,000 seats
are randomized and distributed
Friday afternoon to students who,
with four IDs and registration
For the final three games of this
season, the best 6,000 seats will be
distributed in random order. This
means lower arena tickets will be
mixed with upper arena tickets in
a ratio of l-to-2. Therefore, there
is no incentive to camp out. This
does not mean that you should
bypass the weekend distribution in
the hope of getting a ticket on
Monday morning. On the weekend,
the ticket office has many ushers
and eight ticket handlers to conve
niently handle thousands of ticket
seeking students. On Monday morn
ing they have none of this. Thou
sands of students hoping to get
tickets on Monday morning will
onlv create confusion, disorder and
ch oce, worn en's right
what Ms. Critz suggests be done
about such situations as victims of
rape or young teen-agers who,
thanks to a lack of adequate sex
education, were genuinely ignorant
of the consequences of their actions.
What about cases where the life of
the mother is threatened by child
birth? For some, the emotional
trauma of pregnancy might be so
great that adoption is unfeasible. I
am by no means advocating abor
CKiK ON,GCi?GE,PUT THE GUN LET S
to bring about the reinstatement of Gamble
under terms acceptable both to him and the
director. Hatcher-Wilson's proposal offered
Gamble no opportunity to try to establish a
permanent professional working relationship. It
left Gamble in an untenable position and only
postponed the decision to dismiss. After a long
discussion, Hatcher-Wilson agreed she would
commit herself toward establishing a new and
permanent professional relationship with Gam
ble. In good faith, she agreed to put the past
behind her and begin anew in the attempt to
restore stability and harmony at the Campus Y.
The undisclosed letter of resignation would be
operative only if the directory and associate
director could not establish a good working
relationship.
At about 3 a.m., Gamble said he was not ready
to sign the letter and proposed adjournment until
the following morning. All of us accepted the
suggestion;' no effort was made to prolong the
meeting.
The five of us reconvened at 9:30 the next
morning in Young's office in South Building.
Gamble announced that he would sign the letter
of resignation in response to Hatcher-Wilson's
concession of the previous evening but under
a condition of his own. He requested that
meetings between him and Hatcher-Wilson to
discuss the nature and progress of their
professional relationship take place regularly,
even monthly, in r the presence of outside
representatives who would be in a position to
represent his interests. Hatcher-Wilson denied
the condition. After another long discussion,
however, it was mutually agreed that the five
of us would serve as such a committee and that
we would meet more than once between then
and May 15. The following four conditions of
reinstatement were then signed by Hatcher
Wilson and Gamble, and the letter of resignation
was signed by Gamble.
1. That Gamble provide a letter of resig
nation dated May 15 to be given to the director
Nov. 25, 1985. The director would hold that letter
until such time that she has been able to assess
the nature of his professional competence in
working with students, the Advisory Board, the
Division of Student Affairs and the director.
long lines; thar is, n mere are any
tickets left at all. Also, for the last
three games of the season, students
will be permitted to claim four
tickets if they present four athletic
passes with four corresponding
registration cards. So have a friend
get you a ticket.
This is an experiment, but hope
fully it will work, and well be able
to move closer toward a more
convenient football-style ticket
distribution next season. Please
contact me or anyone in the CAA
if you have any further ideas or
comments.
In closing, let me thank all the
students who contacted the CAA
and offered suggestions and con
structive criticism. Also, thanks go
the the CAA ticket committee for
a good effort in what often is an
unheralded job. Finally, thanks to
the UNC ticket office for their
patience and insight in trying to find
the right distribution.
P.S. Your athletic pass will one
day be a collector's item, because
next semester it will be replaced by
a card that is the same size as the
registration card.
public would
Mark H. Pavao,
CAA president
tion as an automatic solution, but
it should certainly be an option.
Criminalizing abortion will only
return us to the days of the dan
gerous back-alley abortions of
yesteryear. The time is now for
women to stand up for their right
to choose. Our health and freedom
depend on it.
Elizabeth Bell
Ruffin
TALK.TH1S OUT."
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2. That between now and May 15, the
associate director will not undermine the position
of the director.
3., That it will be known publicly that the
. director initiated this agreement and that there
are conditions mutually agreed between them.
4. That the director will meet at her
discretion, but more than once, with Wiggins,
Young, Gamble and Lensing between now and
May 15 to report on the preofessional relation
ship between the director and associate director.
No one of us was completely satisfied with
all these terms, but all of us agreed to them in
an atmosphere of trust and with the strong hope
of beginning a new relationship between the
director and associate director and of restoring
the Campus Y to its important work at hand.
All the agreements, including the letter of
resignation and the decision not to disclose all
the details publicly, were founded on this sense
of trust and with recognition of the risks involved.
Both the director associate director made
compromises, modifying their original positions
in order to arrive at an agreement. At the
conclusion of the approximately 5lA hours of
negotiation, we felt that the agreement again,
accepted by both parties offered the possibility
of taking the Campus Y from crisis back to its
normal programs and activities.
Before the end of the fall semester, Wiggins
and Lensing met with the director and associate
director once. At the meeting, differences
between the two parties were still evident, but
both responded positively to suggestions by the
. other on ways in which they might improve their
working relationship.
The action taken by Gamble this past week
repudiating these terms of agreement was done
without any consultation with us. We regret that
we and other members of the Advisory Board
did not have a chance once again to try to
negotiate with him and other parties the issues
that disturbed him.
George Lensing is a professor in the English
department. Maria Young is secretary of the
University. Both are members of the Campus
Y Advisory Board.