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8The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, November 20, 1991 98th year of editorial freedom Jennifer Stephanie Johnston, University Editor CuiXEN FERGUSON, Editorial Page Editor Mark Anderson, Sports Editor CHRISTINA NlFONG, Features Editor Alex De Grand, Cartoon Editor MlTCH KOKAI, Copy Desk Editor GRANT HALVERSON, Photography Editor MATTHEW ElSLEY, Special Assignments Editor WlNG, Editor STEVE Poun, University Editor Peter Wallsten, City Editor DACIA Toll, State and National Editor MONDY Lamb, Omnibus Editor Jennifer Dickens, Layout Editor Amy SEELEY, Copy Desk Editor KATHY MlCHEL, Photography Editor JoAnn RODAK, Managing Editor Giving the Let's set the scene: As the University continues to grow within Chapel Hill's limited area, town officials and residents are becoming more resentful and afraid of the ever-expanding campus. Much has been made recently of the obvious tensions af fecting town-gown relations, but until last week neither side had done much to ease them. The Chapel Hill Town Council's unani mous vote to allow council members to take active roles in the review process of proposed University developments should do much to relieve some of that tension by ensuring better communication between the town and University. The resolution passed by the council will allow that body to give comments on the environmental aspects of University de velopment in town. The resolution stems from the N.C. En vironmental Policy Act, which requires all state agencies to go through a review pro cess to see if there are environmental im pacts of development. The act requires that an environmental assessment be prepared for any project that either will use public monies or will have a potential environmental effect. This could include practically all University develop ments. While the resolution provides the town some insurance in its struggle against the expanding campus, it in no way threatens future University developments the reso lution gives the town a voice but not neces sarily a vote in the University's develop ment proposals. The town can now rest assured that its concerns about campus Paying a high It's a tragedy whenever another person tests positive for the HIV virus, but the recent announcement of basketball great Magic Johnson's infection has had at least one result that should have happened long ago. Fox TV has announced that it will be the first television network to accept adver tisements for condoms. It has been common knowledge foryears that the only effective ways to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases are ibstinence and the use of condoms, and abstinence is too much to ask of some people. With the recent spread of STDs, most notably AIDS, it seems reasonable that condom advertising would have blan keted television sets for most of the past decade, but this has not been the case. Instead, networks gave in to misinformed fears that advertising condoms would only increase society's promiscuity and refused ads from condom manufacturers. Fox TV, which has made a name for itself by going one step further than other networks have dared, finally found the courage to say, "Enough!" and to give common sense greater weight than the fears of the uninformed. It realized that the best preventive steps amounted to nothing if people were not informed of them, and it Editorial Policy The Daily Tar Heel's editorials are approved composed of the editor, editorial page editor and mmmmm Businesi and advertising: Kevin Schwartz, directorgeneral manager; iiwmyer, hhisuii nsnwurm, uusmess manager. Business stall: Michelle Gray, assistant managerG'ma Berardino.and Laurie Davis, office ass'sfanft.Chrissy Davis, promotions manager. Classified advertising: Amy Dew, Becky Marquette, Laura Richards, Leah Richards and Jennifer Terry, representatives.Ctiai Campbell, production assistant. DisDlav advertising: Ashleioh Heath, advertising manager Ctai Boswell. Carrie Gradv. Marcie Bailev. Anoela Grav. Robert Lee Carsnn David Hoffmann, Brooks Spradling, Milton Artis, Trish Parrott, and director; Manoetn Layion, Joanna Hutcmns, Manea Miner, assistant Advertising production: Bill Leslie, managersystem administrator; Assistant editors: Anne Michaud, arts coordinator; Hardy Floyd, copy; Amber Nimocks, city; Andre Hauser, editorial page; Beth Tatum, featuresValerie Fields and Gillam Hall, managing;Vicu Hyman and Mike Long, Omnibus; Andrew Cline, photo;Nei Amato, Stewart Chisam arid Warren Hynes, sports; Eric Lusk, slate and national; Ashley Fogle and Bonnie Rochrnan, university. Newsclerk: Kevin Brennan. Editorial writers: Wendy Bounds, Alisa DeMao. David Etchison and Will Spears. University: John Broadfoot, Beth Broodno, Micah Cover, Birch DeVault, Soyia Ellison, Amy Eslinger, Adam Ford, Heather Harreld, Jenny Mclnnis, Matthew Mielke, Marty Minchin, Jennifer Mueller, Cathy Oberle, Shea Rioasbee. Karen Schwartz. Peter Smith. Sarah Suiter. Jennifer Talhelm, Jon Whisenant and Michael Workman. City: Tiffany Ashhurst. Jennifer Brett, Sally Bright, Kim Cable, Maile Jackie Hershkowitz, Grant Holland. Amie Lane, Amber Nimocks, Liz Parker, Dana Pope, Emily Russ, Kelly Ryan and Chris Trahan. State and National: Karen Dietrich. Steve Doyle, Brandy Fisher, Anna Griffin, Vicki Hyman, Laura Laxton, Chris Lindsey, West Lockhart, Beth McNichol, Rebeccah Moore and Jason Richardson. Arts: Lavton Croft Ned Dirlik. Beth Formv-Duva . Laura Guv. Grant Ha Mehta, Greg Miller, Susie Rickard, Sally Stryker and Ian Williams. Features: umger Meek, senior writer josn noyer, n-Hsin unang, King. Mara Lee, Robin Lowe, Kimberiy Perry, Winifred Sease, Radha sports: scon Gold and Jamie Hosenoerg, senior writers; Jason Frohock. Stuart Gordan.Dave Heiser, Doug Hoogervorst, Matt Johnson, David J. Kupstas, Mary Lafferty, John C. Manuel, Amy McCaffrey, Bobby McCroskey, David Monroe, Kelly Noyes. Bryan Strickland, Jay Stroble and Carter Toole. Photography: Brian Jones, senior photographer; Jonathan Alkeson, Jamie Batten, Kevin Chignell, Andrew Cline, Steve Exum, Garth Fort, Florian Hanig. Scott Lansing, Erin Randall, Evie Sandlin, Debbie Stengel and Susan Tebbens. Coov Editors: Lisa Lindsav. senior cooveditorMAi Bechtel. Amv Cummins. Michael Gaudio. Tera Henslev. Aimta Hnhhs Rama Kawall Jennifer Kurfees, Mara Lee, Amy McCarter, Vikki Mercer, Susan Pearsall, Elliot Poger, Jennifer Reid, Alison Roxby, Christie Saleh, John biaion, Jacqueline i oroK, hick i womey, Kenyana upenuren, aara cartoonists: Manay Drams, Jake MCNeny, jason i orcninsKy. Layout: Shawn Fuller and Ian Leong. Graphics: Chip Sudderth. Editorial Production: Stacy Wynn, manager; Lisa Reichle, assistant. Distribution and Printing: Village Printing Company The Daily Tar Heel is published by the DTK Publishing Corp., a non - University calendar. Callers with Questions about billlna or disDlav advertisina should dial at 962-0252. Editorial questions should be directed to 962-02450246. Office: Suit 104 Carolina Union Campus mail address: CBI S210 boi 49, Carolina Union U.S. Mail address: P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-3257 town a voice expansion will be heard, and the Univer sity can rest assured that town officials will not be able to veto its new development plans. The resolution also serves to improve communication between the town and University. A lack of communication has been at the heart of past disputes, most notably the council's decision earlier this year not to include the University's pro posed South Loop Road in the state-funded Chapel Hill-Carrboro thoroughfare plan. The council voted not to include the South Loop proposal because council members had not been involved in its planning pro cess. With the new resolution, such a sce nario will not occur again the town will be aware of University plans in their early stages and will be able to comment on them as they develop. While this is a good first step in improv ing town-University relations, more needs to be done. Council member Roosevelt Wilkerson has proposed a liaison between the town and University who will consider the interests of both in the development process. The town and University should take up Wilkerson's proposal; the creation of a liaison position could impact town gown relations more forcefully than the resolution. It is obvious that the town and the Uni versity would both like theirrelationship to be more harmonious. This resolution will give the town some assurance that its voice will be heard, and it does not threaten future University developments. This is the first step, let's hope that more will follow. price for safety finally opened the nation's most-used me dium television to educate people about how to protect themselves. Ads will be aired only if they advocate the use of condoms for disease prevention; advertisement of condoms as contracep tives will not be accepted. Although this ignores a major use of condoms, it does make some sense. Birth control is often a question of personal morality and religious views, but prevention of often-fatal dis eases is a universal issue about which all members of society should be equally well educated. So far, no other networks have chosen to follow Fox TV's lead instead of doing that which will improve public awareness of STDs, they have chosen not to hurt their Nielsen ratings. That's too bad, but even if they are unwilling to accept ads for condoms, perhaps they at least will run public service announcements stressing the need for safe sex. Fox TV, which has been criticized for its risque programming, has used the same principles with this decision to step ahead of the other networks in fulfilling its re sponsibility to viewers. It's just too bad that it took another HIV-positive celebrity for them to make it. by the majority of the editorial board, which is four editorial writers. Bob Bates, advertising director, Leslie Humphrey, classified ad Lynne Sandridge, account executives; Heather BannistercreanVe account executives; Charlotte Weaver, Nicki Blair, proofreaders. Anita Bentley and Lorrie Pate, assistants. Carpenter, Andrew Cline. Carol Davis. Julie Flick. Chris Goodson. verson. Ash ev Harris. Melissa Manknwski Charts Marshall Rahul siepnanie uiaytor, rnti unitnis. Tittanv Cook. Melanie Gettvs. Thomas Vatsal and J.J. Wariick. bates, A.J. brown, trie uavid. Jennifer Dunlao. Jav Exum. Christ na waison, Amy weiier ana nancy west. profit North Carolina corporation, Monday-Friday, according to the 962 - 1 1 63 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 o.m. Classified ads can be raached Arm yourselves It's acceptable to advertise that it's not a woman's fault that her maxi or tampon leaks. It's even OK to tell the world that women often have that "not so fresh feeling" and to display a product that supposedly will cure it. However, condoms, a product both men and women need to maintain not only personal hygiene but maybe even life, get hush-hush treatment from everybody. Yesterday I read in USA Today that people in Los Angeles, Magic Johnson's city, were fighting over whether condoms should behush hush in the school system. Some residents are pushing the Los Angeles school system, the second largest in the United States, to follow New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco in approving proposals that would make condoms available to the 135,000 students who attend the city's 49 public schools. Others, however, are arguing that giving students access to condoms not only promotes sexual promiscu ity, but also increases the risk of catch ing AIDS. The more they think about sex, the more likely they will be to have it, and as Beverly LaHaye, president of Concerned Women for America, said in USA Today, "Condoms have failed to stem the tide of gonorrhea and herpes; it is unrealistic to assume they will do any better for AIDS." Condoms aren't the problem, people are. Salk's polio vaccine would not have virtually wiped out polio if we had left it in the vial and hadn't used it. Condoms can't even put a dent in the spread of sexually transmitted diseases if we refuse to use them or fail to make them available to all people who are sexually active. LaHaye goes on to argue that safe sex is not what kids truly want and that "young people want truth and guidance from adults on how to respond to their developing sexuality." If kids U.S. veterans' sacrifices deserve more respect To the editor On Monday, Nov. 11, 1991, 1 was hurt and disgusted by the short sightedness of the American pub lic, primarily students of this uni versity. The Veterans Day ceremony held in Polk Place was attended by only 50 students, if that many. This is ludicrous considering the stu dent population of our University is 23,000! Where were all the "supporters" of the recent military action in Southwest Asia? Have they all found better causes to be involved with? Or were these "supporters" following a fad last year, heaven forbid, wrapped up in the vogue of yellow ribbons! Last year at this time, I was knee deep in the sand of the Omani Desert, training for the planned amphibious assault of Kuwait (which thank God never hap Student input is A couple ot years ago a group ot students announced that they wanted to abolish student government. I don't remember what they called themselves, but they got a lot of people to sign a petition, which they passed out the day of campus elections. It was in reaction to a prolonged (three-month) race for student body president and perceived problems within the Student Congress. That seems like a long time ago now, but the group said some thing I haven't forgotten because it seemed logical: "I'll care about student government when it cares about me." I'm pleased with what we've been able to accomplish this fall. A lot of our focus has been toward reconnecting regular students to the University. By December, we'll have com pleted all of the projects that I promised to undertake during the election last spring. Meridith Rentz, Jennifer Ravenel and I are planning our activities for the remainder of my term. As we do so, I come back to what the students protesting student government said in 1990. I'm going to spend the next month going out and listening to students. It's not that I think we've been inaccessible this year. Through Pit forums, these columns and attendance of group meetings, we've done as much as others have in the past to make ourselves available to stu dents. But ouremphasis has been on doing what we promised to do. As we finish this semester and begin the next, I want my emphasis to be on listening. Going to dorm meetings, more group meetings and going door-to-door seem simple with information Erika Campbell S With No I Assistance are really begging adults for guidance on how to respond responsibly totheir developing sexu ality, I suggest they look elsewhere. In this world in which the sexually active adult popu lation is, by and large, pretty ignorant about its own sexuality and how to act responsibly re garding it, teenagers are left out on their own with "wait until you're married" as guidance. Many American adults are uneducated or undereducated at best about their own sexual ity and the sexually transmitted diseases that might threaten not only their lives, but also those of family members. If the public school system would take on the responsibility of completely educating its students about the sexuality that we have been trying to hide so desperately, the school system possibly could educate not only its students, but also the masses of ignorant or semi-ignorant adults who are parents of these students. For years we have placed sexuality behind closed doors and have pretended that premarital sex does not exist, especially among teens. Today's parents were yesterday's teen agers, and many of them, though they seem to have forgotten, also had premarital sex. However, in 1 99 1 the consequences are a bit different. Instead of resulting in a shotgun mar riage, premarital sex could get you into an even worse situation death. To keep our heads in the sand and pretend that preaching "Just Say No To Sex" will be enough to keep teens, and others for that matter, from having unprotected pened!). It is difficult to explain how scary and emotionally taxing that time was: not knowing whether I would see my family again, touch green grass again, enjoy decent food again or simply live through the next few weeks. Most frightening of all the ques tions was WHY! Why were we going to fight in this war? Why us?These questions were merely semantics. No matter what my personal feelings, I gave an oath to defend this country against all enemies foreign and domestic. Unlike others who shirked their oaths, I answered the call and served my nation, along with five good friends (and brothers in arms) who gave their lives for it. By disregarding this simple cer emony that lasted only a few min utes, you disrespected me, my friends who died for you and all veterans living and dead who have sacrificed a part of themselves for something most of us will never understand. WILLIAM C. BORDEAUX HM3, USNR-IRR Freshman International Studies Truth shouldn't suffer for trashy satire's sake To the editor: From reading the Nov. 14 edito rial, "Quayling at a little satire," I think you should stop running "Doonesbury" and replace it wilh more of these editorials. You said that "Doonesbury is a political cartoon it is satire, not literal truth." Satire uses irony and wit not blatant falsehoods or smear tactics (or, as you say, "not literal truth"). I think most of us are getting a little bit tired of this kind of trash. Trudeau knew the accusations were false. He showed that he was not above using these kinds of tactics against those that don't agree with his own political philosophy. neceary for caring government MattHeyd Student Body President things to do, but I can't find any record of past student body presidents doing any of those things after they were elected. We just want to know what you're thinking and how you feel about what's going on on campus and what we're doing to address your problems. It's more than just listening, too. There are a couple of issues on which I want your opinion. Jim Copland wrote a column two weeks ago explaining our Higher Education Bill of Rights, which hopes to establish a guideline for state funding priorities of the University. Often, we complain about budget cuts without offering a comprehensive idea of how we think the state should fund the University. It's extremely im portant that we get your approved so that we can carry that forward to the legislature next spring. Second, the committee planning the diversity requirement is almost done with its work, and it's crucial that students understand why the requirement is important to our curriculum. Finally, there's the mission statement we hope to revise. (UNC-system) President (CD.) Spangler's mission review committee reported that, for the most part. Chapel Hill should continue with the graduate and undergraduate teaching that has been its foundation. That's good news. A revision in our own mission about safe sex sex is to play Russian roulette with teenagers' lives. I am very grateful I did not have parents who treated my sister, brother and me as imbeciles. In my house there was never, "Don't have sex until you're married, just because." Instead my parents, especially my mother, told me that they felt that teenagers were not ready to have sex because they were not ready to take respon sibility for their actions. My mother warned me of the consequences of having sex, pregnancy and STDs included. However, she also took into account that I might, as many teenagers often do, choose the infinite intelligence of 17 rather than the obsolete knowledge of my mother and elders. She set about possibly protecting me from myself and insisted that I become knowledgeable about birth control, condoms included. If our society is going to be serious about protecting the lives of every person, teens and young adults included, then we are going to have to take a realistic, intelligent approach toward our own sexuality. To deny that people are having sex even unprotected sex for reasons other than procreation is to be ignorant. Wishing that people will wait until they marry and will stay in monogamous relationships will not make it happen. People are going tochoose a variety of ways toexpress their sexuality, and they are going to choose various times in their lives to express it. If we are going to be a truly humane people insistent on the protection of life and health for all people, then we must arm our people with as virulent and powerful a weapon as we have available. ' Erika Campbell is a senior history major from Chattanooga, Tenn. This is all too prevalent in the media, and it is keeping a lot of people out of government service. Do the responsible thing and drop Doonesbury until Trudeau cleans up his act. NED KRAUSHAAR Graduate Student Health Policy and Administration Letters policy The Daily Tar Heel welcomes reader comments and criticisms. Weattempt to print asmany letters to the editor as space permits. When writing letters, please follow these guidelines: Letters should be limited to 400 words, although longer letters are accepted. However, the shorter the letter, the better chance it has of running. If you want your letter pub lished, sign and date it. No more than two signatures. If you have a title that is rel evant to your letter's subject, please include it. statement to further integrate student support into the mission would be consistent with what the outside consultants who evaluated the Uni versity thought were our strengths. We also want to talk to you about the issue of the housekeepers' working conditions. Right now, student government is only playing a very minor support role. You probably know what's at issue; there are several state salary grades that pay workers below the poverty level. Many of the housekeepers and groundskeepers at Chapel Hill are affected. It seems td me it's fundamental that students support a movement to make their working conditions better, not only through a more reasonable pay scale, but also through improved educational opportuni ties and a better grievance procedure. It's time that North Carolina moved into the 20th cen tury. "I'll care about student government when it cares about me." It makes sense. We're never going to make everybody happy. There's al ways somebody who thinks that student gov ernment is a bunch of loons. They're not alone in that thought. Sometimes I think we're crazy, too. We've tried our best this year to keep politicos and politics out of this part of student government. All we want now is your opinion. It's time we got out and listened again. I'd like your feedback. Call me either at home (968 2577) or at the office (962-5201) or come by Suite C. Matt Heyd is a senior history major from Charlotte.
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