8The Daily Tar HeelFriday, November 18, 1988
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96th year of editorial freedom
Karen Bell, News Editor
MATT BlVENS, Associate Editor
KlMBERLY EDENS, University Editor
JON K. RUST, Managing Editor
Will Lingo, aty Editor
Kelly Rhodes, Am Editor
CATHY McHUGH, Omnibus Editor
SHELLEY ERBLAND, Design Editor
Jean Lutes, Editor
KAARIN TlSUE, News Editor
LAURA PEARLMAN, Associate Editor
KRISTEN GARDNER, University Editor
SHARON KEBSCHULL, State and National Editor
MIKE BERARDINO, Sports Editor
LEIGH ANN McDONALD, Features Editor
DAVID MlNTON, Photography Editor
Kelly Thompson, Design Editor
A chance to see champions
For the seventh consecutive year,
UNC is playing in the Final Four.
"Wait a minute," you say. "Basket
ball just started. And we lost to
Arizona in the regional finals last
year." Well, we're not talking basket
ball. This is soccer.
: UNC women's soccer, to be exact,
and to say that the program is good
would be a gross understatement. If
Dean Smith or Mack Brown could
boast the record of the women's soccer
team, they would be gods on campus.
Vet few people recognize the name of
Anson Dorrance. (He's the soccer
coach).
: Consider the numbers. More
national championships than Notre
Dame. Seven straight Final Four
appearances. Sixty-eight straight
games without a loss. An 18-1 record
in post-season play. A 16-0-2 record
this year. Number one in the nation.
Again.
That's success by any standard.
Even better, that's excitement.
And students can see the team play
tomorrow. At 1 p.m. on Finley Field,
UNC will take on Wisconsin in the
national semi-finals. If they win, they
will play the winner of the California
N.C. State game for the national
championship. That game will be
Saturday, also at 1 p.m. on Finley
Field. Both games will be nationally
televised by ESPN.
Don't think that student support
won't be needed or appreciated, either.
Non-revenue sports on this campus,
despite their success, suffer from
abysmal attendance. It is a distinct
possibility that more people will travel
to Duke to watch a 1-9 football team
than will walk across campus to see
the women's soccer team play for a
national championship.
These women, however, deserve
your support. They have worked hard
to get where they are, and raucous,
enthusiastic support can only motivate
the players. The team may be great,
but that doesn't exclude the possibility
of close games in which a good crowd
can make a difference. In the regional
finals, UNC squeaked by Central
Florida by a 2-1 score. Last month,
the Tar Heels played State to an
overtime tie, and if they meet again
in the finals, expect a nerve-wracking
afternoon.
Besides, the weather's nice, and it
will be a chance to spend some time
in the sun. So come out to Finley Field
tomorrow and show the team, ESPN
and the nation that the University
takes its greatness seriously. If we win,
then come out Saturday, too. After
all, with women's soccer at UNC, a
national championship only comes
once a year. David Starnes
Justice Department misnamed
There have been so many reports
of deceit and corruption among high
level Reagan officials that close
political observers eventually become
numbed by each new admission or
allegation. However, the most recent
case, as reported in Thursday's
Washington Post, is particularly
noteworthy.
The Justice Department's ethics
division exonerated former Criminal
Justice Division Chief Charles Weld
from charges of marijuana use. Weld,
who, along with Deputy Attorney
General Arnold Burns, resigned from
his post in March in protest over the
ethical misconduct of Ed Meese,
apparently was set up by a fellow
employee at the Justice Department.
The charges were made by Boston
lawyer Frank McNamara, who knew
Weld from Weld's tenure as federal
prosecutor in Boston. McNamara,
who eventually was hired to succeed
Weld, claimed that he saw Weld
lighting a joint at a party following
a wedding.
The ethics division's ruling which
came in a report that was not meant
for public release centered around
confessions by James Byrne, a Justice
-'Department aide. Byrne asserts that
he was ordered by the aforementioned
Burns to "dig up some dirt" on Weld.
Byrne then spoke to McNamara, who
later made the erroneous accusations.
McNamara ironically confessed dur
ing investigations to having used
marijuana in previous years, and he
has already been placed under inves
tigation by the ethics division for his
acts.
This latest scandal is particularly
damning because it once again strikes
at the heart of the U.S. system of
justice. Justice Department officials
are responsible for upholding the law;
thus, they have a duty to rise above
petty office conflicts and unite to fight
injustice and control crime. Their
assignment calls for both impartiality
and fairness.
By allowing itself to be corrupted,
the Justice Department has clearly
failed to meet this responsibility, for
each new scandal rightly decreases the
respect that citizens have for the law.
Reagan was able to divorce himself
from these scandals with his grand
fatherly charm and scripted platitudes.
The Bush administration, already
under attack from many, would be
wise not to tolerate such rampant
indiscretions. Dave Hall
Taking a tremendous trek toward turkey
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t is almost that time of year again. The
signs are everywhere. The weather has
ii. gotten just a bit colder. The McDo
nald's "give gift certificates instead of real
presents in the kids' stockings" commercial
has been on for at least three weeks. The
department store aisles have been trans
formed into paths through tinsel forests.
It's almost Christmas! No, wait a minute.
That's more than a month away. Oh, that's
right it's time for that little holiday
known as Thanksgiving.
Next Tuesday, my sister and I will hop
in the car with two other wayward children
of Connecticut and begin the annual quest
for turkey. Round trip, the quest will take
almost a full day of driving, covering a
distance of more than 1,000 miles. There
are people who question making this
gargantuan effort simply to eat some
poultry. On the surface it appears to be
a valid question.
On our interstate odyssey we will face
real challenges. We will have packed the
essentials for the trip: the nice outfit for
the actual night itself, a selection of good
music so we can avoid the Christmas carols
already dominating the radio and a stack
of books to impress the parents. Two of
the above items will actually be used during
the weekend. Even with term papers and
finals hanging over our heads, the books
will remain in the corner of our rooms,
unused and unloved.
For the first few hours, the trip will be
fun. The tension will start to build around
Washington, D.C. Where to stop for
dinner, Roy Rogers or Pizza Hut? Can
we listen to something other than Bruce
Springsteen's "Born to Run," as good as
it is? Why did we agree to give a ride to
Bill Yelverton
Notes from the Abyss
that guy from Duke who happens to live
in our hometown?
The road to Connecticut is a long one.
After a greasy dinner at a Shoney's in
Olney, Md., the crew will settle in and brace
themselves for New Jersey, the state that
never ends. I look forward to arriving in
beautiful Newark, because it means we are
almost out of the state.
And getting there is only half the fun.
After unpacking the car, I always look
forward to the pleasures of home. All I
can think about is climbing the stairs to
my room and falling into my comfortable
old bed. Mom will have made it up with
clean sheets; maybe shell even have put
a plate of chocolate chip cookies on the
bedside table.
Last year I turned on the light and found
that my cozy room had been transformed
into that suburban creation known as the
den office. My bed was still there, only
now it was covered with accumulated bills
and minutes from a year's worth of PTA
meetings. As I carefully moved aside the
debris, I was still hoping to find the crisp,
clean sheets that had always greeted me
in the past. But the sheets I had left on
the bed in August were still there, pressed
flat by the weight of office work. I dealt
with it as best I could. Ill be fine this year
as long as they haven't turned the den
office into the entertainment media center.
I'm not fond of sofa beds.
The grandparents will arrive home the
day after we do this year. It's always a
lot of fun to see them. In the past there
have been some fireworks between the
parents and the grandparents, but now that
everyone is getting a little older, it's easier.
Before they arrive, Mom will be running
around the house in an attempt to eradicate
filth from the Earth. The family is enlisted
as her sanitation army. Most of the things
she asks us to do are reasonable, but this
year I'm going to balk at vacuuming the
dog so that dog hair doesnt get the chance
to fall onto the carpet.
Once the house is clean, the day-long
preparation of the feast begins. Mom is
responsible for the big ticket items, such
as the turkey, mashed potatoes and brussel
sprouts. Grandma makes the wild rice and
the gravy. Suzanne and Michael bake the
pies, pumpkin and pecan. Christine and
I whip up the cranberry-orange relish and
set the table. Dad and Granddad tear the
bread for the stuffing while they watch
bowl games.
As night falls we are ready to begin.
Everyone has washed behind their ears and
gotten into their fancy clothes. The food
lies before us in the glow of candlelight.
We wait to eat until everyone, has gone
around the table in turn and taken a
moment to reflect on what we have to be
grateful for. This is what Thanksgiving is
all about.
Even if you arent going anywhere next
Thursday, take a few minutes to think back
on the past year. Chances are there were
a few good things in it.
Bill Yelverton is a senior English major
from Darien, Conn.
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Hatcher is
a hypocrite
To the editor:
Come on folks, be serious.
This Eddie Hatcher story in the
Nov. 16 DTH ("U.S. should
cease own abuses first, activist
says") surely was meant for the
April 1, 1989, edition. After all,
Eddie Hatcher advocating civil
rights is much akin to Adolf
Hitler holding forth on the
righteousness of racial equality.
Besides killing or raping some
body, how much more devas
tatingly can you violate an
individual's civil rights than by
holding him or her hostage at
gunpoint? Some Palestinians
try to draw attention to the
plight of their people by hijack
ing airplanes, and we call them
terrorists. What are we to call
Hatcher and Jacobs? Surely
not civil rights activists.
What about the civil rights
of the 20 employees of The
Robesonian who were told by
the two "activists" to prepare
to die that very day in February
of this year? In addition, where
is all the "evidence" the two
"activists" promised to reveal?
To date it seems to exist in their
imaginations only, for they
have not presented , an iota of
the material they pledged.
Lastly, I would seriously ques
tion the mindset of anybody,
most of all a professor of law,
who calls the armed kidnap
ping of 20 innocent bystanders
a media stunt. If anybody had
been killed, Nakell probably
would classify the offense as
jaywalking.
I do not doubt that Robeson
County has its share, or per
haps even more than its share,
of official corruption. Poverty,
racial violence and discrimina
tion are probably to be found .
there as well. That does not
negate the fact that Hatcher
and Jacobs behaved like crim
inals, and that the verdict
rendered in their case was a sick
joke and a clear travesty of
justice.
If Hatcher and Jacobs have
advanced the cause of civil
rights by means of their "media
stunt," think what they should
be able to accomplish with a
live hand grenade in a kinder
garden class. That really would
teach us what civil rights are
all about.
NORBERT MAYR
Assistant professor
Department of History
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history lesson
To the editor:
An otherwise sensitive edi
torial by Dave Hall ("The
lessons of the Holocaust") on
Nov. 11 about the historical
significance of Kristallnacht
was marred by major mistakes
about the ancient and recent
history of the Middle East.
First, Hall is incorrect in stating
that "Palestinians were there
first" He seems to have forgot
ten that Israel existed as a
nation in its current location
from the time of Joshua until
its destruction as a political
state by the Romans in the first
and second centuries A.D.
Even then, while many Jews
unwillingly left Israel, many
Jews remained there.
Second, the 1948 partition
under the U.N. plan did not
displace Palestinians. Rather, it
split British Palestine into two
states as a political matter, one
Jewish and the other Arab. The
wars that followed wars
triggered by Arab determina
tion to destroy Israel caused
the displacement of many
Palestinians. I agree with Hall
that the displacement was
unfortunate, but it is important
to remember that it resulted
from Arab aggression. I favor
a negotiated settlement based
on trading land for peace. But
I am disturbed by Hall's failure
to mention that from 1948 to
1967, the Arab government of
Jordan, which then controlled
the West Bank, did nothing to
create a Palestinian state in
accord with the U.N. partition
plan.
I also agree with Hall's
criticism of the Israeli govern
ment's oppressive treatment of
Palestinians in recent months.
Yet Hall should recognize that
it is the efforts of Arab govern
ments and Palestinian terrorists
for 40 years to destroy Israel
and their continuing and vio
lent refusal (except recently for
Egypt and possibly Jordan) to
accept its existence in peace
that fuel understandable Israeli
fears of Palestinian goals and
also, unfortunately, undue
Israeli intransigence and
harshness.
BENJAMIN SENDOR
Assistant professor
Institute of Government
Equal rights
for the unborn
To the editor:
Abortion is a very sensitive
topic, as Julie Gammill dem
onstrated in her column ("Anti
abortion a selfish ploy for
votes, support," Nov. 14).
However, Julie's arguments are
the same that the pro-choice
advocates have been presenting
since the Roe vs. Wade deci
sion, and they are just as faulty
now as they were then.
First, just because the rich
will always be able to afford
abortions does not mean that
we should legalize abortions
and fund them for everyone
who wants one. If that is so,
then let us also legalize drug
dealing, first-degree murder,
prostitution, kidnapping and
child pornography. Won't the
rich always be able to afford
these illegal services? How then
can we justify denying these
services to those without the
financial means to obtain
them? The fact is that people
will continue to have abortions,
murder people, do drugs, sleep
with disease-ridden prostitutes
and steal children no matter
how illegal these acts are. This
is no justification for
legalization.
Second, her argument that
the Republicans have a plot to
cause "a population explosion
in poverty-ridden areas"
borders on paranoia. Surely,
there are always some evil
criminal minds who want to
take over the world, but Lex
Luthor is in the comic books,
not in America. A population
explosion doesn't help the
economy at all, and sup
posedly, Republicans and
Democrats all profit when the
economy is doing well.
Her third argument of per
sonal choice over her body is
the only one with any common
sense behind it. Yes, you do
have a right to personal choice
concerning your body. But read
that again. Your body is what
you have a right of personal
choice over. Not anyone else's
body, but your own. There is
a slogan IVe heard somewhere,
"Equal rights for unborn
women!" Do what you like to
your own body, but don't
murder someone else while you
do that.
CHARLES BALAN
Senior
Interdisciplinary studies
H
atcher acquittal encouraged terrorism
To the editor:
H uman Rights Week on this campus lost
a lot of its credibility on Tuesday, Nov.
15, when Eddie Hatcher, enjoying his
recent publicity to its fullest, spoke in
Gerrard Hall. Does Hatcher realize that
he is as guilty of human rights violations
as anyone he is condemning?
Being a native North Carolinian, I
followed with interest the trial of Hatcher
and Jacobs. However, I was completely
baffled and astounded by the acquittal
handed down in this specific case. Did the
end result really justify the means?
Obviously not, because as Hatcher himself
stated there have been 15 "questionable"
murders in Robeson County since his
terroristic takeover of the newspaper office
in February.
I am not denying that deplorable
conditions exist in Robeson County; what
I am saying is, how can anyone listen to
a terrorist like Hatcher condemn others
for human rights violations? I suppose
holding the newspaper staff hostage at
armed guard did not violate anyone's
human rights. Just think about the lasting
emotional effects on the people involved
in that incident. Can anyone not believe
they were scared to death, not knowing
whether they would live or die? I know
if a loved one of mine had been involved,
the outrageous acquittal verdict would
have incensed me.
To me, Hatcher is as two-faced and
hypocritical as is humanly possible. He
lives by the motto "Do as I say, not as
I do." Hatcher has no place on the campus
of this fine university, much less to speak
on human rights.
In conclusion, I would like my readers
to consider what kind of precedent
Hatcher's acquittal sets. It basically opens
the door for anyone not content with a
situation to take hostages, under the
reasoning, "Eddie Hatcher did it and was
not punished; why should I be punished?"
It might not be a bad idea to try at the
DTH office.
JULE BANZET
Senior
History Political science