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8The Daily Tar HeelMonday, April 20, 1992 j OH LOO,VEAR, 7 HERE'S THAT Peter Wallsten, Editor Dacia TOLL, Managing Ator STEVE PoLITI, University Editor Shea Riggsbee, Editorial Page Editor Amber Nimocks, City Editor Anna Griffin, State and National Editor Warren Hynes, Sports Editor Beth Tatum, Features Editor Amy Seeley, Copy Desk Editor ANDREW CLINE, Photography Editor Jennifer Dickens, Layout Editor ALEX De GRAND, Cartoon Editor VlCKI Hyman, Omnibus Editor Editor in chief's office hours: Friday, I p.m.-3 p.m. this wjsr BB THS I Established in 1893 VTft 100th year of editorial freedom Publishing honor court cases increases impact v The University of Georgia's student newspaper recently won access to the school's honor court records. This landmark decision should set a prece dent for colleges and universities across the country, including UNC. Georgia's campus paper, The Red and Black, took its grievances to court and won the right to view the records of the Organized Court of the Student Judi ciary. The ruling gives The Red and Black the right to publish all of the facts concerning honor court cases, including the names of students charged with of fenses. Red and Black Editor Lance Helms said the paper also wanted the right to observe court proceed ings and was willing to fight for this all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. ' '" The editors should be commended for their efforts to inform the university community of violations on campus. The Red and Black now will be an effective medium in educating Georgia's students about the court's influence. It also will have the ability to check up on possible wrongdoings in the system. ' UNC's publications, including The Daily Tar Heel, should have the same abilities to inform the commu nity and monitor the court on a regular basis. All records from UNC's Honor Court with the exception of students' names should be made public. By allowing the DTH to report on cases throughout the semester, the University community would be more aware of the Honor Court system. UNC's Undergraduate HonorCourt releases sum mary reports on its cases to the DTH at the end of each semester. The release includes charges, ver dicts and sanctions, but the reports do not mention the names of students brought before the court. Because these reports are released only twice a year, they are ineffective in informing the commu nity about the court's functions. The only time most students learn about the Honor Court is during freshmen orientation. The court tells students that ignorance is not an excuse for violating the Honor Code. If the DTH regularly published cases brought before the court, students would be more informed and much less inclined to plead ignorance. UNC's Honor Court should follow the precedent set recently in Georgia and allow campus publica tions to view case records. Freer access to court records would make the Honor Court a more visible part of the University experience. Lenoir summer hours to hurt wallets, health , Carolina Dining Services officials have reached a classic solution to their problem of declining profits. They're just going to stop serving meals after 2:30 p.m. on weekdays in the summer. Who ever heard of eating dinner anyway? .University officials have announced that the hours for Lenoir Dining Hall will be reduced this summer because earnings have been low in previous sum mers. Lenoir also will not serve on the weekends. Once again, Carolina Dining Services officials are shrugging their shoulders to the demand for student services, blaming the decision on their perpetual scapegoat a lack of profits. The decision to close early completely disregards needs of students and others who attend school and conferences at the University during the summer. : By removing the dinner option from Lenoir, stu dents will be forced to hike to the high-priced restau rants on Franklin Street. Not only are these eateries more expensive, but students without means of trans portation will be unduly inconvenienced. Nayna Uppin, a former summer school student, emphasized the need for dinner service at Lenoir. "I can't imagine what I would have done last summer if I had to walk to Franklin Street every time I wanted food. Finding nourishment shouldn't have to be an excursion," Uppin said. Carolina Dining Services' purpose is to serve the needs of the student body even if profits are sacrificed. When policies are based solely on what is profitable, students become the victims. Lenoir has lost money in previous summers, but there is no justification for completely removing the dinner option. Even if it means modifying the break fast service to a continental breakfast, something must be done to guarantee that students have the option of eating dinner at Lenoir this summer. Eating healthy and regularly is vital for academic success. Carolina Dining Services has confirmed in the past that students need not expect appealing food or adequate service in campus dining halls. But one would think they could at least get three meals a day. TH52.L be easier. THAN VoU THINK. 1 Tilting at Windbags. MtelWfrrliiM Buiinait and advertising: Kevin Schwartz, directorgeneral manager; Bob Bates, advertising director; Leslie Humphrey, classified ad manager; Allison Ashworth, business manager. Business rlalf: Michelle Gray, assistant manager Gina Berardino, and Leah Willis, office assistants; Chrissy Davis, promotions manager. Classified advertising: Amy Dew, Becky Marquette, Lorrie Pate, Leah Richards and Jennifer Terry, representatives; Kristen Costello, Tina Habash, Christ! Thomas and Steve Vetter, classified trainees; Chad Campbell, production assistant. Display advertising: Ashleigh Heath, advertising manager;MMon Artis, Marcle Bailey, Laurie Baron, Robert Lee Carson, Carrie Grady, Angela Gray, Joanna Hutchins, Lynne Sandridge, Brooks Spradling, and Ginger Wagoner, account executives; Michelle Buckner, Jessica Frank, Pam Horkan and Mariea Miller, assistant account executives; Charlotte Weaver, Nicki Blair, proofreaders; Sherri Cockrum, creative director. Advertising production: Bill Leslie, managersystem administrator; Ma Bentley, Stephanie Brodsky and Lorrie Pate, assistants. Assistant editors: Anne Michaud. arts coordinator. Dana Pooe. cfV: Jennifer Dunlao and JoAnn Rodak. coov: Karen Dietrich edit Dane- Yi-Hsin Chano leaiimsCMm Sudderth, graphics coordinator; Mike Long, Omnibus; Erin Randall, photography; Stewart Chisam, Eric David and Bryan Strickland, sports; Rebecah Moore, state and national; nircn uevauu. rviarry rviincnin ana Bonnie Kocnman, university. Newsclerk: Kevin Brennan. Editorial writers: Ashley Fogle, Adam Ford, Steve Harris, Alan Martin, Mike Murray and Mark Shelburne. University: Michael 8radlev. John Sroadfoot Megan Brown. Shannon Crownover. Deborah Greenwood. Heather Harreld. Valerie Holbert. Teesha Holladav Kathleen Keener, Chandra McLean, Jenny Mclnnis, Maricia Moye, Jennifer Mueller, Anuradha Seth. Maria Sweeney. Jennifer Talhelm. Marcv Walsh. Jon Whisenant and Michael Workman. City: Tiffany Ashhurst. Andrea Bruce. Kim Cable. Maile Carpenter. Andrew Cline. Carol Davis. Julie Flick. Chris Goodson. Jackie Hershknwit? Grant Holland Fmilv Russ Kelly Ryan and Brendan Smith. State and National: Alisa DeMao and Eric Lusk. senior writers: Jan Duncan. Gillam Hall. Vicki Hvman. Laura Laxton. Brian McJunkin. Lars Munsnn Ad Henna Parker. Jason Richardson, Bruce Robinson Pete Simpkinson and Chris Trahan. special Assignments: Ansa uerviao, Anna urimn, Mara Lee, Jennifer Mueller and Gillian Murphy. Arts: Layton Croft, Ned Dirlik, Belh Formv-Duval, Laura Guv, Grant Halverson. Ashlev Harris. Melissa Mankowski. Charles Marshall. Jonathan McCall. Rahul Mehta. Greo Miller, Elizabeth Oliver, Susie Rickard, Martin Scott. Jenni Spitz, Sally Slryker and Ian Williams. remurei: vicki uieng, ivncnaei easterly, nooyn ronies, Jackie HersKowitz, I nomas King, Kristin Leignt, HODin Lowe, Anna Meadows, Kelly Noyes, Mary Moore Parham, Sonja Post. Aulica Lin Rutland and Winifred Sease. Sports: Neil Amato and Mark Anderson, senior writers; Zachary Albert, Jason Bates. Kimberlv Dunbar. Jennifer Dunlac Marc Franklin. Brian Gould. Dave Heiser. SteDhen Higdon. Doug Hoogervorst. Matt Johnson. Diana Koval. David J. Kuostas. Marv Latfertv. Alison Lawrence. Jacson Lowe. John C. Manuel. Amv McCaffrev. Bobbv McCroskey, Marly McGee, Brian McJunkin, Kirk Medlin, David Monroe. Jay Stroble, Carter Toole. Philip Weickert, James Whitfield. Michael Workman and Pete Zifchak. moiograpny: ueoDie biengei, senior pnowgrapner; jonainan Atkeson. I odd uarr, Kevin unignell, Garth rort, Kelly Ureene, Horian Manig, fcnn Randall and Evie Sandlin. Copy Editors: Andv Bechtel. Tiffany Cook. Amv Cummins. Michael Gaudio. Kvle HooDer. Rama Kawali. Jennifer Kurfees. Mara Lee. Martv McGee. Vikki Mercer. Jennifer Reid, John Slaton, Jacqueline Torok, Rick Twomey, Kenyatla Upchurch, Sara Watson, Amy Weller and Nancy West. . uripmcs: jgim basena, jay MoseDorougn ano kick Maine. Cartoonists: Mandy Brame. Mary 8rut2man, Lem Butler, Carolyn Flanders and Jeff Maxim. Layout: Shane Klein, Heather Modlin and Teresa Rucker. Editorial Production: Stacy Wynn, manager; Lisa Reichle, assistant. Distribution and Printing: Village Printing Company The Daily Tar Heel is published by the DTH Publishing Corp., a non-profit North Carolina corporation, Monday-Friday, according to the University calendar. Callers with questions about billing or display advertising should dial 962-1 163 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 o.m. Classified ads can be reached at 962-0252. Editorial questions should be directed to 962-02450246. Campus mall address: CB 5210 box 49, Carolina Union Office: Suite 104 Carolina Union U.S. Mall address: P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-3257 Helmsley sentence weakens citadel of arrogance' I feel alittle guilty taking glee in know ing that the queen of hotels, Leona Helmsley , is off in prison for at least 1 6 months. She is, after all, 7 1 years old, which is about my grandmother's age. She has cardiovascular problems and an older, ill husband who is reportedly totally dependent on her. Her lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, who also has been involved in Mike Tyson's and Claus Von Bulow's cases, said the Aryan Brotherhood has threatened to killher when she's in prison. Why would they want her? Anyway, the Brother hood is probably not well-represented in the women s prison. Maybe they re the ones who do the laundry there. For Leona, the prospect of prison seems to have always meant death, noth ing less. If she has to go, she'll die because of her health problems, she said. And her husband will die without her around to care for him, she said. When her appeal for a new trial failed April 7 and a reporter asked her how she would handle going to prison, she an swered, "Maybe I can drop dead." Regardless of all of these circum stances, legitimate and melodramatic, she deserves to be in jail. She was con victed of evading $1.7 million in fed eral income taxes. She and her husband Harry were indicted on charges that they bought furniture and decorations for two of their homes and deducted the purchases as business expenses for the Helmsley hotel chain. While this isn t the worst thing a person could do, it is a crime in this country. Jerry Brown has said in his campaign that he wants the American people to use him as "their battering ram to tear down the citadel of arrogance." Jerry has provided us with a wonderfully apt phrase to refer to people such as Leona, Arati' Korwar Plunging into Traffic Donald Trump and John "The Teflon Don" Gotti, three veritable cita dels of arro gance. Leona treated her em ployees imperi ously. And I re member seeing full-page ads in The New Yor ker magazine, itself a citadel of arro gance, showing Leona in a fancy gown and tiara; Leona standing, queenlike and large, in the midst of her employ ees; Leona being waited on and bowed to by her employees. These images re mind me that it's OK to feel good about Leona getting busted. The day of her last-ditch appeal, last Tuesday, her lawyer said Leona "was not prepared to go to prison." Who ever is prepared or wants to go to prison? Leona wasn't prepared perhaps because she thought she could jump through the wealthy person's loophole. Dershowitz said that Leona would give her hotels to the city of New York to house the homeless if she could evade going to prison. Her offer would singlehandedly solve the city's home less problem, her lawyer said. While Leona's official spokesman said that the hotel offer was simply a metaphor used while bargaining for her freedom, use of this metaphor shows a shameless attempt to benefit from the highly emo tional and troubling crisis of homelessness. If the hotel giveaway was just a meta phor and not a real proposal, what was it a metaphor for but corruption, privi lege and contempt for the law, which the rest of us must live by? What better metaphor for the fall of Leona than Jerry's metaphor of tearing down the citadel of arrogance. I'm not jealous of Leona and all of her things and her power. I've just al ways believed that, if there is justice in this world, people with too much pride, like someone who fancies herself a queen, should get slammed. When she saw that she could not escape her sentence, Leona's tune changed. "I'm prepared to abide by the law," she said. I guess the idea that the law also appl ies to her finally penetrated beyond her tiara. Better late than never. Unfortunately, her sentence might not have been humbling enough. She seems still to hang on, by her finger nails, to her citadel of arrogance. She flew in her private plane to Lexington, Ky., and was supposed to be driven by limousine from the airport to theprison. I'm sure it was the quickest and most convenient way for her to get where she was going. But wouldn't it have been a nice metaphor if she'd taken Amtrak or driven down in an old Volkswagen Rabbit? Her prison is actually called a federal medical center and is located in "the rolling bluegrass countryside," accord ing to one report. It's probably not the iron bars, hard bed, bare room type of place. I guess it's too much to expect that the room service at the prison will be lousy. Actually, a friend of mine said he'd heard on the radio that Leona might have to make beds and clean up in prison. One can only hope. Arati Korwar is a journalism gradu ate student from Amherst, Mass. NAP represents interests of 'true progressives' Editor's note: The author of the fol lowing letter is the staff adviser for the Student-led New Alliance Party. To the editor: If Eric Wagner meant for his state ment ("New Alliance Party historically radical, racist") to be anything other than an attack on the black community, he has failed miserably. Tell me, Mr. Wagner, if Dr. Fred Newman (the proudly pro-black empowerment, pro gressive, white, Jewish founder of the New Alliance Party) is incorrect in his assessment that the Jewish establish ment has "sold its soul to the Devil," where were all of the "progressive" Jewish organizations when Dr. Newman and other NAP activists (Jewish and otherwise) were marching in Bensonhurst against the gang murder of Yusef Hawkins, in Los Angeles against the beating of Rodney King and in Ra leigh against the police department's 'honoring"the murder-with-a-badge of Ivan Ingram? How can anyone black, white, Jewish, gentile, whatever call himherself progressive and fail to pro test the state-sanctioned police brutal- ty against communities of color? Never again must mean "never again for everyone. True progressives know this, Mr. Wagner, and support a two- state solution to the Middle East con flict and decry the U.S.-supported fas cism of the Israeli government. This stance does not make us any more anti Jew than our support for Native-Ameri can rights or our being against South- African apartheid makes us anti-white. Had Wagner conducted himself as a responsible journalist (as would have the editors of the "National Alliance") and contacted Dr. Newman, Dr. Fulani or the NAP office for a rebuttal, he might have gained this insight. I see no such "could not be reached for com-ment"-type statements in his diatribe. Instead, while hypocritically entreat- ng readers to critically examine (NAP's) history and current mode of operations," he ignores the history of another independent, black-led party, the Black Panther Party of the 1960s, whose leadership was killed off thanks to COINTELPRO, the CIA-sponsored propaganda campaign (intended to scare progressives including progressive minded Jews away from supporting the BPP), whose lies, distortions and quotes-out-of-context ("...") sound re markably like Wagner's. As an openly gay, working-class, white man, I am truly proud to be the local leader of an organization that is "black-led, multiracial," not in spite of the skin color of one of its founders or some of its members, but in acknowledgement that in as racist a society as ours, "multiracial" generally means "white-led" (read: tokenism). In contrast, NAP follows the leadershipof the blackcommunity, which has always been at the forefront of the struggle for freedom and fairness for all people and has acknowledged and encouraged the leadership for all those (of whatever race) who support that struggle. It is that kind of leadership that is best exemplified in BOTH Dr. Lenora Fulani, a brilliant, internationally noted devel opmental psychologist, who made his tory in 1988 as the first woman and first African American to be on the ballot in all SO states, and the national chair woman of NAP (who is running again in 1992) AND Dr. Fred Newman (NAP's founder andTJr. "Fularifs cam paign manager), who both teach and learn from, lead and follow, each other and thousands of activists in the Ameri can pro-democracy movement the sexual innuendoes, redbaiting, Zion ism, racism, corruption, and hypocrisy of the increasingly right-wing two-party system and its minions in the media notwithstanding. I guess I should thank you, Mr. Wagner. The fact that you found your unprincipled, specious fearmongering necessary is a gratifying confirmation of just how overwhelmingly successful the NAP has been on this campus in building the new alliances between all progressive peoples suggested by our name, and how truly scared those in vested in the totalitarian New World Order (who simply ignored us in 1 988) must truly be. We shall overcome. CLIFTON TROY TOTH (Crying Bear) Evening College Psychology UNC students repeat history of bigotry The author of this letter is a member of the UNC class of 1964. To the editor: When I was at Carolina in the early '60s, it was thought appropriate by most students to jeer at "niggers" and "nigger lovers." Now, I'm distressed to hear (the aroma has wafted clear across the country) that many Tar Heels are perse cuting their fellow students because of their sexual orientation. Maybe that line about being doomed to repeat the his tory we don't bother to learn should be tattooed on the backs of everybody's hands at matriculation; it seems that Carolina students of the '90s haven't learned that "faggot" and "nigger" are the same word. Bigotry is bigotry is bigotry, kids. JOHN MEDLIN Seattle, Wash. Laettner s arrogance makes him bad teen idol To the editor: Everyone is sick and tired of heat ing about the team from Durham, but I must commend Mark Chilton for his vote against the recent town council resolu tion celebrating the Duke champion ship. Stand up for your school? (I hope the editorial board can take a little dis sent.) And to Al Featherston, the reporter from Durham who doubted that anyone could take Christian Laettner seriously, a resounding WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE! Laettner, even if he is just a 22-year-old kid, has no right to be an arrogant punk who talks down to local media and stomps on fellow ath letes. Hundreds, no thousands, of teen agers nationwide now claim him as a hero and probably emulate his attitudes and actions. Isn't it a pity that he doesn't provide a better role model? Instead of using his position of power and influ ence to say something important about drugs or safe sex, he would prefer to criticize the very city that has hosted his now-legendary career. Thanks for noth ing, Christian. SCHERI STEWART UNC graduate Art History Letters policy The Daily Tar Heel welcomes reader comments and criticisms. Please follow these guidelines: Limit letters to 400 words. Sign and dateleters. : All letters must be typed and double spaced.
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