10The Daily Tar HeelThursday, April 12, 1990
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Jessica Lanning and Kelly Thompson, Editors
JENNY CLONINGER, University Editor
Jennifer Wing, Forum Editor
Cameron Tew, City Editor
MYRNA MlLLER, Features Editor
Jamie Rosenberg, Sports Editor
EVAN ElLE, Photography Editor
Steve Wilson, News Editor
MELANIE BLACK, Layout Editor
NANCY WYKLE, University Editor
Lynette BLAIR, Opinion Editor
STACI COX, State and National Editor
CHERYL ALLEN, Features Editor
ALISA DeMao, Omnibus Editor
PETE CORSON, Cartoon Editor
JoAnn RODAK, News Editor
ERIK DALE FLIPPO, Design Coordinator
James Claude Benton, Ombudsman
Sending the wrong message
Hardin must act on rhetoric
y. The position of chancellor entails being
a leader of a university and responding to
the needs of the students. But in the past
week, Chancellor Hardin has shown little
concern for students on this campus. Not
only did he show a lack of respect for
individuals' rights by supporting (although
with a few reservations) the mandatory
drug testing proposal, he also demonstrated
it Wednesday with his casual attitude
toward the concerns of the Carolina Indian
Circle.
. Last year, the CIC asked for Hardin's
help with the finding of eligible Native
Americans for faculty postions. Upon
receiving this request, Hardin assigned
Donald Boulton, dean of Student Affairs,
and Harold Wallace, vice chancellor for
University Affairs, to handle the situation.
By simply "passing the buck" to Boulton
and Wallace, Hardin displayed a lackadai
sical attitude concerning minority issues.
A caring chancellor, one who "pays
attention and responds to the needs of the
students," does not cast aside the griev
ances of students, especially those who are
concerned about minority issues. A caring
chancellor does not let a year pass without
informing the group about the progress he
has or hasn't made. A caring chancellor
does not fail to personally organize a task
force designed to investigate possibilities
for Native American faculty members,
especially after promising to do so. Appar
ently, Chancellor Hardin does not care.
: Although he and his administrators claim
to be "intensely committed to creating a
diverse faculty and student body," Hardin's
failure to take action speaks louder than
words'. 'Surely, Hardin does not believe
that students will let this issue dissipate. As
long as he has the resources to do some
thing about the situation, students will
expect him to use those resources.
Like it or not, Hardin's actions reflect
on all of UNC. He represents the people
Burying the issues
D.C. mayor must start road to recovery
The painful saga of Washington, D.C,
Mayor Marion Barry, continued this week
when the 400 people attending a meeting
of black mayors gave Barry a standing
ovation. Conquering a drug addiction is a
difficult struggle that deserves sympathy
and support, but not when it is used merely
as a tool for personal gain, especially when
Barry's city is the foremost front in the
national drug "war."
'.- Barry was snagged on videotape in a
sting operation at a hotel in Washington
earlier this year after several long years of
suspicions and close calls. Despite his
earlier protests to the contrary, he finally
admitted that he had an alcohol problem
failing to address his cocaine use and
checked himself into a clinic in Florida.
Barry's sincerity was severely questioned,
however, when he refused to resign his
position as mayor despite questions about
his ethics and his ability to serve. It appears
as if he entered the clinic only so he could
retain his office.
Drug addiction is a life-threatening
disease, and there is little doubt that Barry
is, as he claims to be, one of its victims.-The
first step on the long road to recovery from
drug addiction is admitting that you have a
problem and realizing that your addiction
could potentially destroy your life. But it is
(difficult to believe Barry has taken this
first step. He has failed to realize the human
impossibility of trying to fight both his
own personal battle and the battle for his
city's streets at the same time; because he
has attempted to fight both battle fronts, it
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who make up this University, and he seems
oblivious to Native Americans and mi
norities in general. UNC has been trying to
shake the image of being a racist commu
nity, but Hardin's conduct has done just
the opposite. All too often, Hardin and the
administration equate minority issues with
black issues simply because blacks make
up the majority of the minority. Sooner or
later, they will not only realize that minor
ity issues concern all non-whites, but they
will also discover that these students
demand action.
Wednesday, CIC members and other
students who were committed to placing a
Native American faculty member at UNC
rallied at South Building to meet with
Chancellor Hardin. Hardin expressed
concern about the issue by thanking the
group for its interest in "diversifying and
uniting" UNC. He mentioned that the CIC's
list of probable Native American candi
dates will help develop his "task force."
However, he refused to set a deadline
because he does not want to rush the proc
ess of hiring faculty members. Hardin's
meek words do not assure that anything
will be done. They are simply the same
words of a year ago, rearranged and unre
liable. No one needs to retell the suffering of
Native Americans in the United States.
Supposedly UNC has done its best to re
spond to the needs of Native American
students, but when one looks at other
schools that have successful Native Ameri
can faculty recruitment programs, is UNC
doing the best it can? It is true that actions
speak louder than words. Ironically, the
words of Dana Lumsden, director of Mi
nority and Women's Affairs, were louder
than any of Hardin's actions: "If Chancel
lor Hardin really wanted a Native Ameri
can faculty member, he would have got
one a long time ago." Tim Little
is difficult to believe that he has actually
admitted his addiction or is working to
recover.
Many city residents still support Barry,
claiming that the FBI was "out to get him"
because he is black. Certainly he has done
a great deal for the people of Washington;
many believe that because he is a black
mayor in a city that is over 75 percent
black, then he alone can speak for the black
population. Perhaps this is why the black
mayors showed such strong support for
him. But the city will elect a new mayor in
the fall, a mayor who will be black, and this
person should be given the same opportu
nity to emerge as a voice for their concerns.
Perhaps the greatest victims in this war
are all the residents of the city who invari
ably find themselves caught in the prover
bial crossfire. Both national and local
politicians and drug lords are using Wash
ington as their battleground in a struggle
for power. It is time that everyone, in the
city and in the nation as a whole, realize
that Marion Barry should not be held up as
an example of a black man who has failed
and that he is not being "persecuted" be
cause he is black. He is simply a human
being who has a very serious illness, like so
many others in this country; he does not
and should not reflect poorly on the African-American
population as a whole. It is
time that Barry, his fellow politicians and
city residents all realized this and helped
him to resign so both can begin their recov
ery. Kimberly Edens
Not even your mother can
Last Wednesday night around 7:30, I
walked from my dorm, Cobb, to Davis
Library to study. I thought nothing of it,
because I usually study in Davis from 7:30 to
1 0-something on weeknights. I was glad about
daylight savings time, because it was still light
outside when I left home, instead of the dark
ness that I was used to.
About three hours later (10:30 for those of
you who can't add), I walked back home to
Cobb and again thought nothing of it. Yes, it
was dark but hey, nobody' 11 bother me, and I
had some tear gas on my key chain. I was pretty
unstoppable, right? Wrong. Luckily, I made it
back to Cobb without any problems, not think
ing about the implications if I hadn't.
Just two and a half hours later, a 32-year old
man, who wasn't affiliated with the University
in any way, had been arrested for assault,
attempted rape and indecent exposure, all of
which took place in my dorm. Where I live. In
fact, the bathroom where the assault took place
was right, next to the room I lived in last year.
Reality set in, and hard. To put it mildly, it
shocked the daylights out of me. I had just been
outside walking where this man allegedly had
been exposing himself to people. What if I had
been outside at that time? What if it had been
me? Your mind can torture you with those
"what ifs."
Ever since setting foot on this campus, people
have told you to avoid walking alone at night
as much as possible. Walk in pairs or get the
S.A.F.E. escort service to walk with you if you
must walk at night. If push comes to a shove,
call the police to take you. Never walk alone.
Anything could happen. Example: Two girls
Upperclassmen face
bad odds in lottery
To the editors:
I would like to express my
concern regarding a policy of the
University Housing Department,
which I believe to be unfair: the
North Campus housing lottery.
At the present time, three draw
ings take place. One of these is a
preliminary drawing in which both
North and South Campus students
wishing to change halls compete
for approximately 200 North
Campus spaces. Unsuccessful
South Campus students may then
either cancel their contract, accept
their South Campus guarantee or
participate in the waiting list draw
ing for North Campus.
North Campus students who are
unsuccessful in the preliminary
drawing have an additional op
tion: the North Campus hall draw
ing, which is conducted for those
North Campus students who wish
to remain in their current hall.
Thus, North Campus students
receive two chances to live in
North Campus residence halls,
while South Campus students
receive only one.
It is not fair that South Campus
rising juniors and seniors should
have a disadvantage when com
pared to North Campus upper
classmen since there is no upper
classmen guarantee for North
Campus housing. The Department
of University Housing needs to
modify its lottery policy in such a
way that all students, whether
living on North or South Campus,
are given an equal chance for North
Campus housing.
TOM PAYLOR
Sophomore
Business Administration
Grad students need
access to parking lot
To the editors:
Parking in Chapel Hill is a hell
ish mess. We all know it, and we
work with it as best we can.
ICimberely
Maxwell
Strictly Business
were abducted from Morehead Planetarium
parking lot August 24, 1985, just 5 years ago.
One was released, but Sharon Lynn Stewart, a
graduate student, wasn't. She was found dead
in Guilford County, after having been raped.
After you hear the horror stories, you're
afraid for perhaps two months. Nothing's
happened to you or anyone you know, so you
throw all caution to the wind after that. To a
point.
Since I frequent Davis at night, my mother
insisted that I get some mace to carry on my
person. So I got a key chain of tear-gas, which
the salesperson told me would do the same
thing as mace. I was invincible. Or so I thought.
A friend of mine saw this funny-shaped
thing hanging on my key chain and asked me
what it was. I told him it was tear gas. He asked
me why I would have something like that, and
I told him to protect myself when I walk
around on campus alone. Boy, did he get a
kick out of that! Next thing I know, I'm
getting flipped around in the air and landing
on the hard floor in a fake assault, and he's
standing over me with his foot on my stom
ach, saying, "What are you going to do now?
Is that tear gas really going to help you now?"
In this situation, I was helpless. He proved
readers' forum
However, protest is in order when
the situation is needlessly made
worse.
Recently, the parking lot be
tween Bynum and Caldwell has
been closed off from 5 p.m. to 7:30
a.m. to anyone without some sort
of valid UNC permit. Early this
evening, I walked through this lot,
which was guarded by not one, not
two, but four orange-clad parking
Nazis. The lot was perhaps one
sixth full, if that. And I thought to
myself, "What a waste!"
Keeping this lot sacred 24 hours
a day is a hardship to many stu
dents, but I write particularly on
behalf of the legions of graduate
students who inhabit offices in the
buildings surrounding this lot
(Caldwell, Manning, Hamilton and
Saunders). We need access to our
offices and libraries to work at
night, and many of us have teach
ing or research responsibilities in
the evenings. Not only are we
grossly underpaid, but we are
denied access to this nearly-vacant
parking lot at the doors of our
buildings.
Many grad students have no
parking permits; we walk, bike or
ride the bus in the daytime. Safety
and bus schedules dictate that we
do not do these things late at night.
I hope that student government
will live up to its claims to serve
the entire student body, including
grad students, by doing something
tangible: put pressure on some
body to reopen this lot after 5 p.m.
ELIZABETH D. ELLEN
Graduate
Political Science
Library checks out
students' support
To the editors:
I want to express publicly the
appreciation of all us involved in
maintaining the quality of the li
brary to those students who re
cently conceived and implemented
Library Awareness Week. Indeed,
the participation of the entire
community, from faculty readers
to the students who gave their
valuable time and effort to support
the library, is something of which
we can all be proud. I know of no
other university in the country
where students' initiative has pro
duced a demonstration of concern
for the institutional library. It is
difficult to believe that it could go
unheeded by those who can do
something about the situation, but
whatever the outcome, all mem
bers of the University should feel
both proud and indebted. Thank
you.
JAMES F.GOVAN
University Librarian
Condition of services
in healthy state
Editor's note: Although the
article discussed in this letter ran
in February, the DTH feels Stu
dent Health Services has a right to
respond due to the seriousness of
the matter.
To the editors:
We write this letter in response
to the DTH article, "Rape victim
seeks positive change from
trauma." (Feb. 22) We are quite
concerned about some misinfor
mation included in the article and
hope the following will help with
clarification. We applaud the
much-needed publicity in the Tar
Heel and through other campus
and community-wide efforts to
educate women and men about
violence and sexual coercion, as
well as dateacquaintance and
stranger rape. It is essential that
accurate information concerning
campus resources be provided.
Members of the Student Psy
chological Services have always
been, and continue to be, available
to assist victims immediately after
any sexual assault. We are also
available to help with the emo
tional consequences of the inci
dent as they surface, perhaps
weeks, months, or even years after
the event.
Student Psychological Services
is staffed by competent and caring
professionals. Each day, two staff
members are available to see stu
protect you
that if anyone wanted to attack me, they could.
And would. It is important to note here that he
is a black belt in karate, but he still did a good
job of proving his point. He was also nice
enough to help me off the floor (that mess hurt!)
and show me some self-defense techniques.'
Not everyone's that nice, though.
There have been times when I have walked
back home from Davis at night, and the bushes
in front of Alexander dorm have frightened me.
And the practice tennis courts in front of Cobb
throw some mean shadows when the regular
tennis courts aren't lit. I make it home okay, so
I figure it's not a real problem. And again the
next night, after Jeopardy!, I strut on out to
Davis as usual.
We are all guilty of not being as safe as we
could be, whether it's walking alone at night or
opening our dorm or apartment doors to strang
ers. PLEASE be careful!! Your safety is very
important, and you shouldn't take it for granted
just because nothing has happened to you or
anyone you know. Watch what you're doing
and who you're doing it with, especially if you
are female. We are all susceptible to crime.
There's definitely not a anti-crime shield around
Chapel Hill just because we students are here.
I've vowed that I'm not going to walk alone
at night; matter of fact, I study during the day
now to avoid going to Davis after dark. I'm not
going to be a statistic, and I don't want any of
you to be one either..
Your mother has spoken.
Kimberley Maxwell Is a junior journalism
and political science major from Marietta, Ga.
dents whose situations need im
mediate attention. After 5 p.m.
and on weekendsholidays, thera-.
pists are available at any time to
see students on an emergency
basis. No student who is in need of
service will be turned away at any
time. Student Psychological Serv
ices is also represented on the
UNC-CH Rape Awareness Com
mittee and the Rape Response Task
Force.
Again, our primary concern is
that misinformation concerning
our services might dissuade other
students from seeking the help they
need. We are always open to feed
back and welcome any sugges
tions on how to improve our serv
ices. The aforementioned article
served the purpose of again re
minding us of the importance of
extensively and accurately publi-f
cizing the availability and range
of services provided by Student
Psychological Services.
Clinical Staff
Student Psychological Services
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