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2The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, February 19, 1986 U IT eedleFlbiuiFk9 BroyMl use A A A By JEANNIE FARIS Start Writer N.C. Republican primary candidates David B. Fundcrburk and Rep. .lames T. Broyhill are using very different television campaign advertising strategies. Funderburk's commercials attack the congressional voting record of Broyhill, whose advertisements show him explaining his position on campaign issues. Both men are seeking the party nomination in the May 6 primary, which will enable the winner to run for the seat held by retiring Sen. John P. East. Funderburk, a Campbell University professor, began his advertising campaign two months ago. His ads also accuse Broyhill of being a liberal Republican, and criticize him for voting in favor of "the big spending budget" presented by Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, D-Mass. "(Funderburk) has found that people around the state want to see a campaign focused on the issues . . . such as national defense of the budget," said Palmer Sugg, Funderburk's press secretary. He said he had not yet seen Broyhill's advertisements, but did not think they would focus on the important issues of the campaign. Broyhill's campaign advertisements aired for the first time Tuesday. They show Broyhill standing alone, telling the viewers how he feels about certain issues, said Doug Haynes, a spokesman for the congressman. Broyhill tells the viewers why he wants to run for the Senate after serving for 24 years In the House of Representatives. He also says that he is a conservative Republican, in favor of a strong national defense and better jobs for more people in the state, Haynes said. Negative advertising distorts the campaign issues rather than focusing on them, he said. "Our experience has been, going around the state, that most people are tired of negative campaigning," he said. Funderburk's strategy is similar to those used by other candidates supported by the National Congres sional Club, a conservative organization aligned with Republican Sen. Jesse Helms. The Congressional Club supported East in 1980 and Helms in 1984. Both candidates won the elections after using campaign advertising that attacked their opponents' voting records and conservatism. "The Broyhill campaign will show this year that you don't have to throw mud to win," Haynes said. He added that although such campaign strategies have been successful in the past, he believed they were beginning to backfire and would work in Broyhill's favor. Both Haynes and Sugg said television advertising was very important to a politician's campaign. "I think (commericals are) "really effective with a personal touch in campaigning," Sugg said. They are important to supplement what the candidate has said in appearances around the state, he said. "(Televised advertising) must be fairly effective because it's a very important part of any successful political campaign in this television age," Haynes said. When asked why Broyhill waited to begin television advertising, Haynes said, "... because the election was such a long way off ... we felt the most important thing to do ... was to work on organizing support in the counties and the state." Broyhill also wanted to build a strong base of financial support for substantial advertising, he added. The congressman's commercials are 30 seconds long and will continue for three weeks, ending midnight . on March 10, Haynes said. The ads will appear during highly-rated programs. Funderburk's commercials began Dec. 10 and have run sporadically since then, Sugg said. They stopped completely for the Christmas holidays but are appearing regularly now. . Neither Haynes nor Sugg could say how many times a day these ads appear or the total amount of air time purchased. 'Lecture' speaker Harris criticizes 'The Color Purple' By ANDREA M. BEAM Staff Writer . They were Trudier Harris's last words. She only needed three: The Color Purple. And for the next 45 minutes, those were fighting words. Harris, a professor in the UNC English department, was speaking to about 50 students , in Carroll Hall Monday as the second in a four-part Last Lecture series sponsored by the Carolina Union. Participating profes sors speak as if it were their last chance to address students. "I have analogized The Color Purple with a loaded pistol that you give to a child," Harris said, calling the novel "a- weapon in the hands of the unin formed," because its author, Alice Walker, has misrepresented black life. "I maintain that the novel is a fairy tale," she said. "The movie is a fairy tale, too. Everyone lives happily ever after." Harris said that too many black women have been silent about The Color Purple. Alice, Walker's mirroring of black society against scenarios of incest, wife beating, lesbianism and evil men distorts the black community, she said, using the novel's central character, Celie, as an example. In the story, Celie is beaten by her husband. "You do not have wife beating in the black community," Harris said. "You have fights. The women fight back. They do not sit back and take that crap. Celie sits there like a bale of cotton with a vagina." Harris said this violence did not alarm the reader because Walker has created a "cadre of spectator readers" readers who stand back and do not become involved in the story. "When you read The Color Purple, it doesn't disturb you at all. You say 'Look at those people beating up each other. Isn't that just too bad?'," The novel's sensational subject matter has also maintained its popularity, she said, adding that Walker has taken a "politically correct" stance toward incest and lesbianism by supporting the lesbian movement and the incest victim. "Alice Walker concluded that The Color Purple was what the people wanted," Harris said. The movie version turns The Color Purple into the "American classic," Harris said '. The viewer not only witnesses the loss of innocence, the plight of the homeless and the struggle of the underdog, Harris said, but also falls victim to director Steven Spiel berg's movie formulas celebration of the family, sisterhood, and closeness to land and soil. "Anybody who operates against family and, sisterhood in this movie is un-American," she said. Harris said many black men have objected to the story because Walker portrays black males as obstacles to these institutions. Harris said some of her students had asked her why she cannot evaluate The Color Purple for artistic reasons alone. "If you start out saving you are writing about black women and are going,to bring about change in society, you have already made decisions that are extra-artistic," Harris said. "You have already put yourself out of the realm of purely aesthetic consideration." Harris said many black women would not criticize the novel for fear of being disloyal. "I decided to stick my neck out," she said. "If it gets whacked on, I want to get whacked on politely." ''- - IIUI.IL,J1IM.L pl-" HI DlWJiS Avoid the lottery blues. Apply now! . All apartments on the bus line to UNC. Fantastic Social Program. Call today for full information. 967-2231 or 967-2234. In North Carolina call I AS Nationwide.' eatrtoH-frte C J -800-334-J 656. J The Apart' rant People Wage inequity remedies debated in forum By SUZANNE JEFFRIES Staff Writer The marketplace works better than government regulations in correcting pay inequity between women and men, a speaker told about 50 people during a forum at the UNC Law School Monday. The forum was sponsored by the Law School's chapter of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, a national organization con cerned with the application of conser vative principles to law. "Markets work better than govern ment regulation in a situation like - comparable worth," said University .of , &a$9 arofeSoRichBil Epstein. Mistakes made by a single . market are easier to change than a mistake made by a government regu lation, he said. UNC Law School Kenan professor Daniel H. Pollitt rebutted Epstein's comments saying regulation is the best way to correct unfairness in job pay. "We have job ghettoization in Amer ica," Pollitt he said. Women are predominantly nurses, school teachers, waitresses and librarians, he said. "All of these jobs are low pay . . and the marketplace does nothing about them," he said. Comparable worth is the next step in the progress toward equal pay, Pollitt said. g Jmgf&ajble worth also called paf IMww. eks to raise the wages dpf women in traditionally-held female (O) Video (O) mm MAJOR ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS ARE NOW " CALLING 8mm THE VIDEO FORMAT OF THE FUTURE. COME SEE THE FUTURE , RIGHT NOW, AT FOISTER'S CAMERA STORE 133 Em Franklin St. Camcorders Digital Stereo Sound Four Hour Video per tape or 12 hour PCM Digital Audio per tape Autofocus 10 lux low light Camera weight 2 lb, Camcorder 4 lb. FOISTER'S your video camera experts ! 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Franklin Centre Eastgate Shopping Center Willowcreek Shopping Center Hours: 10:30 am-2:00 am Sun.-Thurs. 10:30 am-3:00 am Fri. & Sat. Israeli troops storm Lebanon From Associated Prw reports TYRE, Lebanon Israeli troops backed by tanks, gunships and missile boats stormed southern . Lebanese villages and reportedly battled hand-to-hand with Shiite Amal militia men Tuesday, the second day of a search for two soldiers captured by Moslem guerrillas. The Israeli military command said an Israeli sailor on patrol off the Lebanese coast of Lebanon was killed today by gunfire from shore. Lebanon's state-run Beirut radio, said three Lebanese fighters were killed and six others were .wounded in the Israeli sweep, which it called,: an "outright new invasion." Shuttla disaster hearing held WASHINGTON The space shuttle Challenger disaster went in for its first Senate hearing Tuesday as Congress returned from a week long recess and began to take up fiscal 1987 budget requests. Investigators of the Jan. 28 explo sion that killed seven astronauts planned to answer questions from senators, as did National Aeronau tics and Space Administration officials. 70 die in train collision SANTIAGO, Chile Two crowded passenger trains carrying about 300 people slammed head-on into each other on a bridge pre viously damaged by a terrorist bomb, the government news service said. Radio reports said Tuesday about 70 people died. The accident occurred on a bridge where a bomb late last year damaged one of the two sets of tracks, forcing both east- and west-bound trains to use a single track, the state rail company said. OElcef!rekK!s21 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Three people jumped 10 floors to their deaths and 21 others were killed by smoke and flames in a fire that raged in the upper levels of a 13 floor downtown office building, authorities said Tuesday. About 40 people were taken to a hospital with injuries. Rio's civil defense secretary, Col. Jose Halfield, said fire spread quickly Monday, because the build ing, constructed in the 1940s, did not have fire safety features required in r new buildings. Representatives of the fire depart ment said the blaze broke out on the ninth floor just after noon Monday, but the cause had yet to be determined. Aquino's supporters take action; banks, peso feel boycott effects MANILA, Philippines (AP) An opposition boycott protesting the declaration of President Ferdinand E. Marcos as winner of a special election appeared to be taking effect Tuesday as banks reported a run of withdrawals and prices of stock in a major corpo ration fell. Opposition candidate Corazon Aquino made the call for a boycott of corporations run by friends or asso ciates of Marcos at a huge rally Sunday, shortly after the National Assembly proclaimed Marcos the winner of the Feb., 7 election. The Philippine peso suffered its biggest single-day devaluation in years, with the peso-dollar exchange rate climbing from Monday's $19.98 to $22.04 Tuesday. A government bank source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, attributed the 10.3 percent devaluation to politcal instability. Among signs that the economic boycott was having an effect were a drop in the San Miguel Corp., and reports that several banks had unusual withdrawals. San Miguel stock traded Tuesday at 55 cents a share, down from Friday's 70 cents and the Monday close of 57.5 cents. San Miguel makes beer, soft drinks, ice cream and dairy products and is controlled by industrialist Eduardo Cojuangco, a cousin of Aquino. A rash of withdrawals hit Security Bank and Commercial Bank of Manila, two of the seven banks Aquino urged Filipinos to boycott. Bank officers said many customers were taking their money elsewhere in response to Aqui no's call. Elsewhere, state prosectors filed multiple murder charges against Arturo Pacificador, a powerful Marcos ally in the National Assembly. Health conference, King lecture to take place Hdl!.Ttf:iffii5rev! communities is ih topic of the. School of Public Health's tenth annual Minor ity Health Conference to be held Feb. 20-21. Dr. Charles Cook, formerly of the N.C. Department of Human Resources, will give the conference's keynote address, "Policy Implications for Improving Health in Minorities," Thursday, Feb. 20 at 9:45 a.m. in the Rosenau Hall Auditorium. -The Martin Luther "Kirig"Jr.Memor vial Lecture vwiU -r.bc givnFsb.2Q. by Byllye Avery, director of the National Black Women's Health. Project at the Martin Luther King Center for Social Change in Atlanta, Ga. The lecture, "Organizing for Social Change," will be given at 9:30 a.m. in the Rosenau Hall Auditorium. Both the conference and the lectures are free and open to the public. For iho Record In Tuesday's article "Concerto Winners Perform Tonight," The Daily Tar Heel reported in the photo caption, that Judy Grant was a math major from Charlotte. Grant is a math and music major. Also, "Miles Davis rescheduled for March 10" should read "Miles Davis rescheduled for March 30. . Also, in "Morrison governor resigns from RHA,"the Ehringhaus governor's name should read Jammie Eubanks. The daily quote by Lyndon B. Johnson should read "Voting is the first duty of democracy." The Daily Tar Heel regrets the errors. TEA TIME DELI STUDENT SPECIAL Save Yourself Time and Money $1.50 off any order of $7.50 or more "A Southern Deli" Specializing in Chicken, BBQ, Fish, and Sandwiches 967-0186 or 929-5318 Delivery Hours 115 N. Graham St. 4 pm-10 pm Chapel Hill Mon.-Sat. $5.50 Min. Order k GROUP PORTRAITS For Residence Halls, Sororities, Fraternities and Organizations FEB. 24-28 Your Yearbook Page Coverage Contract MUST be signed before photo is taken. 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