6The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, November 20, 1986
Satla
94 th year of editorial freedom
JIM ZOOK, Editor
Randy Farmer, Managing Editor
ED BRACKETT, Associate Editor
DEWEY MESSER, Associate Editor
Tracy Hill, News Editor
GRANT PARSONS, University Editor
Linda Montanari, aty Editor
JILL GERBER, State and National Editor
Scott Fowler, sports Editor
KATHY PETERS, Features Editor
ROBERT KEEFE, Business Editor
Elizabeth Ellen. Arts Editor
DAN CHARLSON, Photography Editor
Divest now, UNC
The shanty now occupying the
peaceful promenade by South Build
ing is a blight to the beauty of the
University. Passersby students as
well as administrators are right
fully disgusted by its presence.
Yet, at the same time, they should
be aware of the irony presented by
the structure's presence: the shanty,
ugly as it is, serves a useful purpose
and deserves to stand. It acts as a
reminder of ugliness elsewhere in the
world the ugliness of apartheid in
South Africa. Of course, the most
heated objections involve the shanty's
second purpose, to protest UNCs
investments in companies doing
business with South Africa.
And justifiably so. The UNC
Endowment Board,, overseer of the
University's financial ventures, con
trols the fate of no less than $102
million, 6 percent of which is tied to
businesses with South African con
nections. Of course, discussions of
what to do with those funds merits
lengthy debate.
UNC officials, however, have had
more than enough time to debate the
issue. They've had plenty of time to
ponder two separate student referen
dums asking for divestment. They've
seen the intractibility of student
protest. They've heard top adminis
tration officials like Chancellor
Christopher Fordham and Farris
Womack, vice chancellor for business
and finance say the University
should divest. They've heard recent
testimony from major businesses who
have severed ties to South Africa
General Motors, Coca-Cola, Warner
Communications, Honeywell and,
just Wednesday, Kodak.
And they've seen that ignoble
community, Soweto, N.C., erected
near South Building once more.
Endowment Board members: In your
meeting today, do something noble,
something that will, in the end, make
the real Soweto a better place. Vote
to divest.
1m InteoH Fotrym
Keep the frosh from playing
Dean Smith has advocated it for
years. Most observers agree the
transition from high school to college
would be made much easier if it were
implemented. Freshman ineligibility is
the bandwagon on which everyone in
college sports should be jumping.
Tuesday, six major college execu
tives gave that bandwagon some much
needed momentum. UNC Chancellor
Christopher Fordham joined the heads
of Miami (Fla.), Minnesota, Mary
land, N.C. State and UCLA and
submitted a resolution to the NCAA
calling for an end to freshman elig
ibility in football and men's basketball.
"We believe that all freshmen should
be given an opportunity," Fordham
said, "to make the transition from high
school to college or university without
the extreme distractions of time,
energy and attention required by
varsity intercollegiate athletics in
football and men's basketball."
The abolition of freshman eligibility
is long overdue. Since 1973 the first
year freshmen could play on the varsity
level the academic performance of
athletes has gone downhill. Last year's
passage of Proposition 48, which made
freshman eligibility contingent on a 2.0
grade point average and a SAT score
of 700, sought to stem that decline.
But the new rule is, at best, a stopgap
solution.
- The weak student is not the only
one who needs time to grow accli
mated to a new environment. Even the
best student may have problems
adjusting to life away from home. For
varsity athletes, those problems are
accentuated by their sports' demands:
long practices, missed classes because
of travel and media pressure.
If freshman ineligibility is to work,
then, the frosh should be allowed to
practice with the varsity. But they
should not travel with the team nor
dress in uniform for games. Athletic
excellence cannot come at the expense
of the academic ideal that higher
education is supposed to embody.
Removing eligibility from all fresh
men not merely those in revenue
sports may be desirable. But non
revenue athletes typically practice less
and miss fewer classes due to travel.
More importantly, they are not subject
to the media scrutiny which football
and basketball players face on a
regular basis, scrutiny which intensifies
the problems every athlete must
confront.
Some frosh can handle the pressure.
And yes, Michael Jordan was a
freshman when he hit the game
winning jumper against Georgetown
in the NCAA finals. But too much has
been said about academic woes that
cannot be shrugged off. It's time for
the NCAA to stop talking and start
doing.
Help puffing pals kick butt (habit)
Today is the Great American Smokeout,
a chance for any hapless sot who ever
I wanted to quit smoking to see the error
' of his ways. Throughout the day-long
carnival, smokers will be bombarded with
tips and subliminal messages designed to
make quitting easier.
Failing that, the healthy ones will resort
;;-to scare tactics too bizarre to be detailed
r here. What? You want to hear them? Okay,
well just wait for it to come back around
on the guitar. Now then, according to staff
reports, these concerned, anti-smoking
: citizens will deploy 27 8-by-10 color glossy
photographs with circles and arrows and
;;a paragraph on the back of each one,
'explaining how charred lungs can lead to
!1 death and other serious illnesses. Pretty
'i sick, eh?
q Pity the poor smoker today. For exam
4 pie, as you enjoy a therapeutic siesta in your
favorite Davis smoking lounge (the ones
;with the best views), don't chastise the
misfortunate soul who has the audacity to
light one up on this most holy day. Instead,
'ease that misguided, perhaps uncaring
i' individual toward enlightenment. Some
p; suggestions, in case you feel your tact may
escape you:
1 B A smoker is a most hardy sort,
meaning he will puff his way to perdition
2 if he so chooses. Subtle tactics are called
- for. Gently bury his nose in a newspaper,
where he can learn of today's festivities. If
that doesn't work, enclose his head in a
handy Glad bag pardon, gas mask
The Bottom Line
to prevent the smoke from reaching your
fair nostrils.
B You may encounter a smoker who
is steadfastly and violently determined to
ignore the Smoke-Out.. In that case, more
drastic measures may be necessary. One
machination that should work is carrying
several gallons of unleaded gasoli terribly
sorry, several gallons of water to launch
at the impolite smoker.
B You should realize that after a bland
cafeteria meal, a smoker can be seen
frantically fumbling for a cigarrette, pipe
or joi uh, pipe. A single, well-aimed
splotch of Dud-Spuds should purge the
urge to fire one up. If that doesn't work,
this is your perfect chance to start the Great
American Food Fight.
B We should also warn you that after
several hours of smoke-free lungs, smokers
will do anything for a toke. In case your
best friend offers you his Audi if youll just
let him go to the bathroom by himself,
threaten to turn him in to the authorities
as someone who should have his urine
tested. He probably won't even flinch at
that, and maybe only the 82nd Airborne
,could give him second thoughts. So if it's
close to midnight anyway, just take the keys
and forget about it. Hell, if it's worth it
to him, it's worth it to you.
Iceland smmmit yields scant benefits
t has been a little more than a month
since Ronald Reagan and Mikhail
JJLGorbachev met in a quaint little haunted
house in Reykjavik, Iceland. Billed as a "get
together," Reykjavik was supposed to
accomplish little more than a handshake
agreement on INF missies in Europe and
a Christmas visit to the United States by
jolly ol Comrade Claus (and you wondered
why Santa wears red!). But the best laid
plans of commies and men ... at any rate,
what do we have to show from Reykjavik,
besides learning how to spell the hardest
capital city in the bloody world?
For starters, both sides have steadfastly
refused to call it a summit proving that,
if hounded by the press, these two can
behave equally ridiculously. After this
sum . . . oops, "high-level contact," did
Moscow or Washington continue a public
dialogue on reducing the nuclear threat and
thereby make the world a safer place to live?
Of course not. Instead we get the superpower
version of "diplomatic poker." You know,
"111 see those 25 expelled United Nations
diplomats, and 111 raise you five more."
"Oh yeah? Well, IH see your five and raise
you 55! How Tjout them apples?"
"Yeah, well . . . ." You get the picture.
The upsetting thing about all this is how
quickly each power has allowed a meaning
ful discussion on nuclear weapons to
disintegrate into a verbal battle about who
was really serious about eliminating the
nuclear threat and who just wanted a suntan.
To have this happen so quickly after
Reykjavik leads one to question the sincerity
of both superpowers.
I believe both Reagan and Gorbachev
really do want an arms control agreement
of some kind but apparently not at the
price that the other is demanding.
An agreement on SDI may have been
made easier by the Democrats' sweeping
Griff Hathaway
Guest Writer
victory in the U.S. Senate. Certainly they
will not be as (dare I say it?) "liberal" in
their funding of SDI; this will represent a
slow-down in Star Wars research. Gorba
chev might bite, although odds are he will
simply let the SDI debate sit until Reagan
leaves office, then try to deal.
As a visiting professor pointed out last
week, the real reason the Kremlin fears SDI
is not that it will work, but that it won't.
If SDI was absolutely guaranteed to work,
then the Soviets would know exactly what
they were up against and could plan counter
strategies accordingly. What worries Mos
cow is that America will unleash her superior
technology in pursuit of SDI and fail, but
God knows what those crazy Americans will
come up with instead leaving the Soviets
off-balance and far behind. This is why
Gorbachev has been so anxious to confine
SDI to the laboratory for as long as possible.
Thus, the question is, should Reagan have
accepted a deal with Gorbachev in Iceland?
What's past is past, but keep in mind one
thing: when Reagan bargains over U.S.
missies in Europe, he is speaking for NATO
as well as America. To simply withdraw the
Pershings and cruise missies would leave the
Warsaw Pact with a tremendous advantage
in conventional firepower, a gap NATO
must close if it wants to be viewed by
Moscow as a serious deterrent to Soviet
aggression. If one assumes Moscow will not
be as' accommodating with her conventional
troops as she was with her SS-20s, then a
lot of money will have to be spent upgrading
and enlarging the existing NATO conven
tional forces.
And considering the public's present
mood on American dollars spent to foot
European defense bills, I doubt any admin
istration would be too keen on this type of
scenario. As for the European community
itself, coming up with the money for such
an overhaul would only be the first of their
problems. Therefore, without a major
reduction in Warsaw Pact conventional
forces along the Iron Curtain, it is entirely
in the best interests to keep the Euromissles
in place.
Where does all this lead us are the
prospects for arms reduction better now
than before Reykjavik? Well, if nothing else,
Reykjavik gave both sides new and bold
proposals which negotiators can argue
about. As for future agreements, I don't see
much happening as long as Reagan clings
so tightly to SDI. I think Gorbachev will
simply hold out until 1989, curry favorable
world opinion and try to increase Moscow's
bargaining leverage as Washington wanes
during Reagan's lame duck period.
The Soviets have recently proposed high
level meetings for each side's negotiating
teams to be held in December and January,
the latter one in Moscow. Look for the
United States to accept these invitations, but
it already appears as though neither side is
planning to make these into anything more
than publicity photo sessions. That's too
bad, because it seemed that after the near
miss in Reykjavik, both Moscow and
Washington were finally moving in the right
direction.
Unfortunately, it looks like the "almost
club" of horseshoes and hand grenades does
not include nuclear arms agreements.
Griff Hathaway is a senior political
science major from Charlotte.
Credibility lapse
To the editor:
There is cause for journalistic
embarrassment in regard to the
Nov. 14 article, "Organization
petitions for Rev. Moon." The
first example is sensationalism
through a misleading headline,
and other examples show jour
nalistic sloppiness through inac
curate information.
In reference to the headline,
CAUSA is petitioning for edu
cation about the fallacies of
atheistic Marxist-Leninism,
support for a theistic world view
as an antidote and for moral
values to be expressed in society
to make the United States and
the world a better placb to live.
CAUSA is not petitioning to
theologically or financially sup
port the Rev. Sun Myung Moon
and the Unification Church.
Second, to quote the story:
"The church preaches that
Moon is the sole, true god who
will reign on earth after the
Apocalypse." Where did writer
Jo Fleischer obtain this infor
mation? The church does not
preach, people do. Who told
Fleischer that this was Unifica
tion theology a Unificationist
or some little voice in his own '
mind? Moon does not teach that
he is God, nor is this stated in
Unification Church teachings.
Thirdly, "the church" is not
going to send petition-signers
educational literature about
CAUSA. CAUSA is sending
them information about
CAUSA. For the sake of cred
ible journalism, please check
your facts. I checked mine with
lan Haycroft, the national
CAUSA respresentative in New
York, and with Ron Papalarde,
leader of the North Carolina
Unification Church.
PAM PUMPHREY
Graduate
Evening College
Editors note: CAUSA was
founded by Moon and mirrors
his staunch anti-communist
beliefs. The statement that the
church would mail CAUSA
literature was a copyediting
change from the original text,
as stated in a correction in
Wednesday's issue. Otherwise,
The Daily Tar Heel stands
behind the story.
Funding waits
To the editor:
Look up, students! There is
a new student organization on
campus. We are based solely
upon our abnormal sexual
practices. We are a minority.
We are also oppressed and
ridiculed because our lifestyles
flow against the tide of prevail
ing societal norms. No, we are
not a new version of the Caro
lina Gay and Lesbian Associ
ation. We are the UNC
Straights Who Wait
Association.
Our organization consists of
heterosexuals who have
decided to postpone their in
volvement in sexual relations
until they are married to the
person with whom they have
fallen in love, having conse
crated this relationship with
ChicaTribuna
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Lie detectors no test of honesty, moral character
To the editor:
In the Daily Tar Heel on
Nov. 10, 1 came upon an article
on the rising use of lie detector
tests by employers in the pri
vate sector ("Lie detector use
may rise, experts say"). Imme
diately this article evoked bad
memories of my own expe
rience with a polygraph test.
I was a senior in high school
trying to make a little money
by finding an after-school job.
The manager was ready to hire
me but told me to take a lie
detector test first. I agreed,
thinking it was no big deal, that
1 had nothing to hide. I failed
my polygraph test, not because
I lied, but because of extreme
intimidation from the person
questioning me and the test
itself.
My interviewer interrogated
me as if I had committed some
crime. Not only did he strap
me in a chair with wires
wrapped around me and at
tached to my hands, but he
made me face the wall and keep
my eyes closed during the
questioning. I was berated for
accidentally opening my eyes
and made to retake the test.
After repeatedly going through
the same questions, my inter
viewer finally informed me in
a satisfied tone that I had failed
the polygraph test. Later, he
called my future employer, and
reported that 1 had stolen such
and such amount of money
from my previous employer!
I felt humiliated by the
nature of the polygraph test
itself, but to be wrongly
accused of lying and stealing
was too much. Thanks to an
understanding manager and
several good recommendations
from other employers, I was
given the job, despite the test
results. 1 resolved never again
to submit myself to a lie detec
tor test, even if it meant fore
going a promising job.
As the article stated,". . .
under optimal conditions the
accuracy of the polygraph test
was between 85 and 95 percent,
assuming that a properly qual
ified person rah the machine."
What happens to those in that
5 to 15 percent range who are
unjustly accused of lying? Hav
ing failed the test, how could
I have argued without looking
ridiculous?
The next time you can voice
your opinion on the issue of lie
detectors in the private sector,
please think of the human side.
Do you really think a machine
can accurately tell us someone
is honest or dishonest?
LAURA LINE
Junior
Political Science
Russian Studies
vows to God to separate only
by death.
We realize that we are a
radical group that has taken an
unpopular stand. However, we
possess strong beliefs in our
choice of this sexual preference.
And for that reason we feel a
need to "educate" the public
about our sexuality, so that
we'll be better accepted by
outsiders. We feel that our
sexuality promotes a healthier
mentality and a more positive
self-image, as well as providing
us with safeguards against
AIDS, herpes and other sex
ually transmuted diseases.
Yet to carry out these edu
cational functions and to pro
mote our organization by way
of social functions, we will need
money. The Carolina Straights
Who Wait will have to get this
money through Student Con
gress when it holds its budget
hearings for student organiza
tional funding early next year.
We foresee no obstacles to
receiving $4,500 to get our
organization started at UNC.
We may need more later, but
that amount will suffice for
now.
Neither do we expect any
opposition from students, since
they fund the CGLA for the
same basic principles of sexual
preference and minority
standing.
A new student organization
is formed. Let us rejoice
together in its birth! May it
never be said that UNC is deaf
to abnormal ideas and stand
ards. See you at the budget
hearings.
R1CKSPARGO
Senior
ADJU Political Science
LORl TAYLOR
. Senior
Political Science
Take a walk
To the editor: .
1 am puzzled by the problem
athletes have in getting to
Ehringhaus Dorm for lunch. 1
assumed our athletes spend
hours maintaining their phys
ical fitness, yet they seem
unable to walk or take the bus.
The University shuttle runs
every 10 minutes around lunch
time. Could an athlete explain
the need to drive? My time is
also valuable, and my research
will contribute to UNCs rep
utation, but 1 get around cam
pus without help. In fact, at
times, lVe been-kunable to park
at Venable Haltwhere I do
research) on . football
Saturdays.
ANDI WEISS BARTCZAK
Graduate
Environmental Studies
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