16The Daily Tar HeelFriday, September 1 , 1989
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97th year of editorial freedom
Sharon Kebschull, Editor
WILLIAM TAGGART, Managing Edito
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JUUA COON,
Value student vote
Don't give rec center second chance
In February,
students voted in
favor of building a
student recreation
board
opinion
center. Since then, various campus
leaders and members of the SRC's board
of directors have spent many laborious
hours drawing up plans, discussing
different sites and planning the search
for an architect. But if District 7 Rep.
Jeffrey Beall has his way, the SRC may
never materialize.
Beall wants to introduce a bill at the
next Student Congress meeting calling
for a new referendum on the SRC. Beall
can give many reasons for introducing
his bill, which - if passed by Student
Congress - would put the SRC up for
another vote this fall. Unfortunately,
none of these reasons holds enough logic
to justify his action.
Beall contends that students who
voted in the spring did not foresee the
recent tuition increase, which will
inevitably put more pressure on students'
wallets. He believes that students should
have the opportunity to "reconsider" the
SRC issue, which also calls for a slight
increase in student fees, in light of the
higher cost of attending UNC.
But students have already shown that
they want a recreation center. They did
not vote for the SRC on the condition
that if tuition rates went up, plans for the
center would be reconsidered. Beall says
a second referendum on the SRC would
give students a chance to express their
feelings; however, he is in effect
Put Pete in hall
Remember Rose for
Charlie Hustle is out of baseball, but that
should not tarnish his impressive career and
contributions to America's pastime.
When baseball commissioner A. Bartlett
Giamatti suspended Pete Rose for life from
baseball on Aug. 24, it was a guilty verdict
many people expected. The evidence
collected from Ron Peters and other Rose
associates was overwhelming and damaging.
It cited Rose's involvement in betting on
baseball, including his own team, and
association with known drug dealers.
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faced. The question must now be raised if Rose
should still be eligible for the baseball Hall
of Fame. Perhaps the question cannot be
answered fully until Giamatti decides a year
from now if Rose can reenter baseball, but
there are several arguments in Rose's favor
that can be presented now.
The evidence is damning, but none of it
can be applied to Rose's career as a player.
His transgressions occurred after he retired as
playermanager of the Cincinnati Reds and
became only manager. As a player, he gave
100 percent. Rose was known for his
unquenchable desire to win, a desire that was
as dangerous as it was exciting. This is a
player who demolished Ray Fosse in an All
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questioning the value of the decision
they already made.
The wording of the bill is misleading
at best. In its present form, the bill calls
for students to vote on "lowering student
fees by eliminating the SRC and
corresponding SRC fee." Yet a vote in
favor of this will not reduce student fees,
as the $13 per semester that would go
toward the SRC will not be added to
students' bills for at least two more
years, by which time the center should
be nearly completed.
In addition, if Beall and others in
congress really want to lower fees, they
should do as Carolina Athletic
Association President Lisa Frye suggests
and take a look at all the various things
for which student fees are used. Why
Beall has singled out the SRC fee to
contest is unclear, -unless he is merely
dissatisfied with the outcome of the first
vote. In a democracy, however, the
minority must live with the majority
decision, and "best two out of three" is
not an option.
Although Beall and any Student
Congress members who vote in favor of
the bill may believe they are doing
students a favor by giving mem another
chance to vote, they should realize that
this is not a reasonable way to conduct
campus politics. Extenuating
circumstances, such as an increase in
UNC's low tuition, should not be used to
call into question again an issue decided
six months ago.
his playing days
Star Game, a game that was an exhibition!
This is a player who made the headfirst slide
popular.
Rose was the epitome of the all-out, clutch
player. His nickname, Charlie Hustle, says it
all. Remember the catch he made in the 1980
World Series, where he caught the foul pop
off Bob Boone's glove? The list of Rose's
accomplishments is lengthy, and it should
outweigh his transgressions which occurred
after he left baseball as a player. Since when
has moral purity been a qualification for the
Hall of Fame,
anyway? Babe Ruth is
in the hall, and he was
a notorious alcoholic
and womanizer. Cap
Anson is in the hall,
and he was almost
single-handedly
responsible for the
ban against black ball
players in the major
leagues. Charles Comiskey is in the hall, and
his miserly wages were as responsible for the
Black Sox Scandal as any other reason.
The Hall of Fame is not a place for saints,
but a place for stars, and Pete Rose was
certainly that in his day. Some of the best
players in the history of baseball were also
some of the game's biggest black eyes. The
mark of Pete Rose should not be remembered
as a black mark he left as a manager, but as
the marks he left in the record books and the
hearts of fans as a player. Rose should not
necessarily be forgiven. He violated the
rules, and Giamatti 's ruling was correct. But
we should remember Rose's contributions as
a player. Let Pete in the hall. He's too big to
ignore. William Taggart
Tar Heel
Student leaders defend students' interests
First, I would like to welcome all the new
members of the Carolina family and
welcome back those of you who know the
magic of Chapel Hill to what is going to be a
very exciting year.
The summer, as you can tell from reading
the first issues of the paper, has been
anything but quiet. The issue that Student
Congress Speaker Gene Davis and I focused
much of our attention on was the tuition
increase. Some local newspapers, including
The Daily Tar Heel, have published
editorials opposing our stance on tuition,
claiming that we have been whining
unnecessarily. My reply is this: I have yet to
have one of my constituents, the students,
come up to me and say that they oppose our
actions and statements on their behalf. I feel
my responsibility is to defend the interests
of the students, and if that means "whining"
because the student body is being used as a
cash cow to fund highways and pork-barrel
projects then I will "whine" loud and long.
Helms amendment
protects taxpayers
To the editor:
Believe it or not, I actually
am writing this letter in order to
commend The Daily Tar Heel
and its staff for their good sense,
common decency, and high
journalistic standards. (Stranger
things have happened, I
suppose!)
The occasion for this praise?
The DTH came remarkably
close to agreeing with Sen. Jesse
Helms!! Perhaps some
background information would
be in order.
On July 26, Sen. Helms
introduced an amendment to the
Interior Appropriations Bill to
prohibit the use of tax dollars to
support art that is pornographic,
homo-erotic or exploit children,
or denigrates the objects or
beliefs of the adherents of a
particular religion or non
religion. The National Endowment for
the Arts immediately replied
with cries of censorship.
Ironically, they simultaneously
embarked on a frantic campaign
to withhold from the public the
facts and the photos which have
made the Helms Amendment a
necessity.
By screaming, "This
amendment would have kept
Shakespeare or Michelangelo
from receiving government
grants" (which, by the way, I
believe they operated without),
the arts community would have
you believe that the disputed
"art," (I use this term loosely), is
in some way worthy of
comparison with the great
masters. Perhaps you have been
led to believe that this "art"
contains nothing more
objectionable than the nudes one
would see in ancient Greek
statues.
Let me set the record straight
by describing the federally
subsidized works of "art" of
Andres Serrano and Robert
Mapplethorpe.
Serrano received $15,000
from the NEA for a photograph
depicting a crucifix submerged
t's time to take off the 'top
They are already starting to give me that
look: utter pity. It comes right after they ask
what I did with my summer "vacation" and I
admit hesitantly that I was in summer school
and working in Chapel Hill.
"Oh, gosh, I'm sorry, that's really too
bad," they say sympathetically, but they
couldn't feel too bad as they feel free to
expound upon their travels and exotic
internships in New York, L.A. and Paris.
And maybe the Hill does pale in comparison
with the big cities, but I would do it all over
again in fact, I hate to see the summer
end. I fear those mob parties at frat court,
don't want to have to wait in line at Molly's,
and I've grown accustomed to riding my
bike through an empty, noon-time Pit.
But I am quietly accepting that all these
summer perks will end. However, there is
one summer bonus that I simply refuse to
relinquish the absence of the terrible
"Late Night in Chapel Hill" T-shirt. I'm sure
you've seen it maybe you even have one.
On the back it reads "Chapel Hill's Top Ten
Lies" and the first one listed is "On my
honor I have neither given nor received aid
on this exam." For those of you who are new
around this town, that last sentence is our
honor pledge it guides the spirit of our
academic endeavors.
Nothing in this world can get to me like
that shirt. And for some strange twist of
cosmic fate, it was the most popular T-shirt
around last spring. There I was suffering
through the Drama 15 final exam with 300
tightly packed students surrounding me, and
in the row right in front of me were three of
those very same T-shirts. "What
encouragement," I thought. Word on the
street has it that some clever fraternity
pledge class was selling the shirt in the Pit to
raise money. And of course, Johnny T-Shirt,
ever true to the interests of our community,
placed one strategically in its window. There
was simply no escape.
What is amazing to me is that these T
shirts are popular despite the fact that they
are truly hideous andTibt even remotely
Brien Lewis
Guest Writer
The tuition increase is only one issue that
students and student government will face in
the coming year, and so I will not dwell on
tuition in this column. We face a series of
challenges and opportunities and Student
Government is looking forward to a number
of initiatives that will be introduced
throughout the year. I will continue with my
efforts to make Student Government more
accessible by holding weekly office hours in
the Pit, residence halls and apartment
complexes and by interacting with students
and student groups at every possible
opportunity. Student government will also
continue its efforts to implement an
academic minor, review the perspective
in a bottle of the artist's urine
with the title "Piss Christ."
A collection of photographs
by the late Robert Mapplethorpe
was assembled with the help of
a $30,000 grant from the NEA.
The collection includes photos
of: provocative child nudity;
one man urinating in another
man's mouth; a bull-whip
inserted in Mapplethorpe's
rectum; a close-up of a man
sticking his "pinkie" finger up
his penis; and many other
genitalia and sado-masochistic
shots.
(I apologize to the reader for
the graphic descriptions. It's
appalling when you can hardly
bring yourself to describe "art"
that your tax money purchased,
isn't it?)
"But how did The Daily Tar
Heel get involved?" you might
ask. By refusing to print these
photos which your tax money
purchased, and thereby
endorsing the basic principles
behind the Helms Amendment!
The DTH staffers must have
realized that these photos go far
beyond the limits of what can be
printed in general circulation
newspaper (or even productions
of "adult" bookstores, for that
matter). Why then, should the
American taxpayer be expected
to spend his hard-earned money
to purchase and promote "art"?
The language of the Helms
Amendment also prohibits
government funding of material
which "denigrates, debases, or
reviles a person, group or class
of citizens on the basis of race,
creed, sex, handicap, age or
national origin." Doesn't this
sound remarkably like the
underlying theme of our
campus Human Right Week?
The Helms Amendment to the
Interior Appropriations Bill is
not an attempt at censorship, but
an effort to protect the
individual rights of all classes
and races of our American
society. Artists may produce,
draw, photograph and display
whatever they desire. However,
any purchaser has the right to
determine what he will or will
not pay for.
Our government and the
American taxpayers are no
different. As Pat Buchanan said
in reference to this issue, "God
bless Jesse Helms!"
SHARON SENTELLE
Junior
. JournalismPolitical Science
(Editor's note: Sentelle is the
chairwoman of the UNC Letters
policy
Ruth Dowling
Guest Writer
clever. The front design "Late night ..."
looks like one of those 70s, sparkled
emblems pasted across the chest. And then
the back is a list of less than funny, supposed
Chapel Hill lies. However, none of the "lies"
seems unique to Chapel Hill the same
shirt could be State's top 10 lies or even
Duke's. In fact, it probably is. Yet it still
gains widespread appeal. With a little work,
the shirt could be changed to be individual
to Carolina. Why not change number one to
"Duke might beat us this year," or "All the
money that went into fixing up the Student
Stores seems well-spent."
Furthermore, why buy a T-shirt that 25
percent of the campus already has? If you
want to wear a popular T-shirt, what you
should do is go to the Campus Y and buy
one from an organization like SEAC and let
your money go to a good cause. The T-shirts
are way cooler, and they are supportive of
the spirit of this University.
A shirt that deliberately mocks our honor
system is hardly productive its
embarrassing. Making fun of Carolina's
social life, the athletics or the greeks
well, that's all fine and fun in my book, but
when we start messing with the academic
integrity of this University, we're just
hurting ourselves.
It is crazy to spend four years at Carolina
going to class and studying only to receive a
diploma that is scarred by an abused honor
system. Believe it or not, employers and
graduate school admissions folks recognize
the efforts made at Carolina to maintain our
honor system. There is nothing more vital to
an academic community like ours than a
high standard of academic integrity. There is
no room for lying, cheating or stealing.
There is no room for "giving or receiving
system, improve food and transit services
and represent student interests at state, local
and national levels. New projects will
include some student consumer services,
efforts to bring a Native American to the
faculty and legislation that would suggest a
major restructuring of student government to
provide better accountability and stronger
communication.
In every endeavor, student government is
pursuing one goal: to provide each and every
member of the student body with the fullest
college experience possible. If you find a
barrier be it social, financial or academic
to achieving your goals, let student
government know. Better yet, get involved
yourself. The opportunities are here for you
to make your mark at Carolina and to leave
it a better place than when you came.
Brien Lewis, a senior political science
major from Toronto, Canada, is student
body president.
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ten' T-shirts
unauthorized aid." Wearing that T-shirt does
nothing except cut at the very essence of our
academic community. Yes, there is cheating
at Carolina. There always will be cheating at
Carolina. However, there is no reason to pay
money for a T-shirt that calls our honor
pledge a lie.
Throughout the summer some friends and
I have boasted about our student-run honor
system to groups of incoming freshmen at
Carolina TOPS. We've explained that
Carolina is very different from high school.
We've claimed that at Carolina there won't
be a need for professors to roam the aisles of
exams, looking over shoulders, and that at
times professors will simply leave students
alone in a room to take an exam, relying
solely on the students' signature on the
pledge as their word of honor.
One day, a professor sat in the audience
and listened to our presentation. When we
had finished, he stood up and made some
comments from the faculty's perspective. He
told the incoming freshmen that they would
be treated as adults at Carolina and thaf It
was simply assumed that while they were at
Carolina they would act with academic
integrity, he said the honor system is, in fact,
a gift of respect from the University to
students. The University recognizes that in
our community professors don't need to be
watch-dogs. What sort of message are we
sending our professors by wearing that T
shirt? The beginning of the school year seems
an apt time for us to take off those awful
shirts and stop taking for granted the
importance of student support of our honor
system. We need to recognize the statement
"On my honor I have neither given nor
received unauthorized aid on this
examination" as one full of responsibility,
trust and maturity. Welcome back to Chapel
Hill.
Ruth Dowling, a junior English and
history major from Providence, RJ., is the
chairwoman of the Honor Court. ' '