8The Daily Tar HeelThursday, May 21, 1992
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Peter Wallsten, Editor
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Taxation without representation at UNC
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Perhans UNC-Charlotte students should declare
their independence from the University system.
Or maybe students across the 16-campus system
should mask themselves as modern-day revolution
aries and demand reform in the student governance
process, calling for an end to taxation without fair
representation.
, Demonstrating the need for change, the UNC
system royal governing board the Board of Gov
ernors agreed earlier this month to a regressive tax
of UNC-C students for construction of a $26 million
"student activity center" they never asked for. What
ever happened to democracy?
In accordance with this country 's highest values of
free-will, system officials andcampus trustees should
move now to end this monarchical travesty. It's time
to recognize that every student should have the
opportunity to vote on any increase in their fees.
V The UNC-C fee increase will triple one part of the
student activity fees to build a new 190,000-square-foot
facility, which will house a 9,500-seat arena for
men's basketball. UNC-C students, who now pay
$40 annually for on-campus activities, will see that
fee increase to as much as $ 1 30 over the next decade.
UNC-C Chancellor James Woodward claims that
students have been deeply involved in the decision
making process. Three student body presidents have
taken part in the discussions, ne says
Wake un. lames, rjrince of Charlotte. You and
your Court in the Queen city the UNC-C Board of
Trustees have lost touch with the students of this
system by asking the BOG to consider the issue after
no consultation from the entire student body.
Student body presidents do not represent the de
sires of all students. In fact, the best representative of
the student body is the student body itself.
The BOG and trustees at every campus should
vote for fee reformsoon, before more abuses occur.
It is important to note that the student fee issue
should not be confused with raising tuition, a neces
sary evil in many cases. In the case of tuition,
financial aid can compensate for the hardship. But
when fees are increased, the additional money comes
straight from the pockets of students and parents.
The UNC-CH Board of Trustees is planning to
discuss the fee issue this week, and other trustees
across the system should do the same. Just as the 1 8th
century American colonists demanded fair represen
tation from the royal government in Britain, so
should students at UNC-system schools demand a
voice in student fee decisions.
But this time, considering the astuteness and fair
ness of the university system's leaders, such reform
is a reasonable goal. The 20th century revolutionar
ies will not fail, but should emerge victorious in their
efforts to improve the UNC experience.
Employees: Take the battle to Raleigh
Enoueh. alreadv. Enough name-calling. Enough
complaining to people who can't help. Enough de
mands that can't be met.
It's time for some action some positive action.
And it's time for the UNC housekeepers and their
attorneys to stop blaming UNC Chancellor Paul
Hardin for problems he can't solve and presenting
him with demands he can't answer.
There are people who can make a difference. But
they work in Raleigh, not Chapel Hill. The time has
come for the housekeepers to aim higher at the
ivory tower of the General Assembly.
Last week, seven UNC housekeepers and their
attorney Alan McSurely met with Hardin for the
second time. As in their first meeting, the group,
representing more than 100 housekeepers who last
fall filed a grievance against the University demand
ing better pay, benefits and working conditions, left
frustrated and disappointed. They still believe that
Hardin doesn't understand what life is like for women
who work all day, often leaving home at three in the
morning, for about $ 1 2,000 a year.
But the chancellor recently has shown signs of
sympathy toward the University's lowest-paid em
ployees. The three employee education programs he
announced May 14 are proof positive that the chan
cellor is making an effort.
Now that Hardin and much of the University
community has begun paying attention, tne nouse
keepers and their lawyers must stop making de
mands that the chancellor is incapable of meeting.
Now is the time for the housekeepers and their
supporters to challenge those truly guilty of inaction
and apathy the N.C. General Assembly.
On May 26, the state legislature will convene,
providing the perfect stage for poorly paid employ
ees to express their outrage to the small group of
people who really can make a difference.
The housekeepers and other frustrated employees
should not expect Hardin to do all the lobbying for
them. Hardin cannot provide funds for the house
keepers to travel to Raleigh not only is the money
not available, it isn't the chancellor's responsibility
to give it to them.
There is no question that the housekeepers and
other low pay-grade University employees deserve
higher pay and better working conditions. But at
tacking Hardin is not the way. The answer lies in
making the General Assembly focus attention on the
concerns of workers throughout the UNC-system,
not simply the 100 or so University housekeepers
who have vocalized their plight.
The activists in Chapel Hill must recognize that
there is an entire movement out there waiting to
happen, and that its focus should be Raleigh. But
until the politicians in Raleigh are forced to pay
attention to the movement, the suffering will con
tinue for thousands of UNC-system employees.
Pack Shack would waste bond money
The word is out that the N.C. General Assembly is
considering authorizing a statewide referendum on a
proposed $300 million bond issue for construction in
the UNC system. Naturally, everybody wants apiece.
The 16-member University of North Carolina sys
tem, the community college network and public
schools all have long lists of pet projects their sup
porters would like to fund with the bond revenue.
At least one idea, N.C. State University's pro
posed $60 million basketball arena, is a turkey whose
time has not hatched.
Wolfpack boosters across the state, perhaps jeal
ous of UNC-Chapel Hill's shrine to the Rams Club,
are salivating over a plan to build a 22,000-seat
hoops hall yes, that's just enough bigger than the
Dean Dome to be worth pointing out over cocktails.
NCSU proposes to split the cost three ways between
the state's bond revenue, Wake County hotel and
restaurant tax proceeds and private contributors.
:But scores of educationally oriented buildings
across North Carolina are more important than the
proposed Centennial Center, including a planned
$33 million graduate engineering school at N.C.
State. State House Speaker Dan Blue has said the
research center will help keep North Carolina com
petitive in the global economy, surely a more impor
tant goal than improving State's sports image.
N.C. State doesn't need another basketball arena
Reynolds Coliseum rarely sells out for basketball
games but is free to waste its own money. The
same doesn't go for state money.
Proponents say the arena would pump more than
$50 million into the local economy annually, largely
by hosting a variety of sports events, concerts, ice
shows and circuses. But that's money lost elsewhere,
such as Raleigh's Dorton Arena and Walnut Creek
Amphitheatre and UNC-CH's Smith Center, fcnter
tainment revenue already spreads thin; the last thing
the Triangle needs is another entertainment venue.
Smedes York, a former Raleigh mayor and NCSU
basketball player, contends the arena need not com
pete with N.C. State's proposed graduate engineer
ing school. "It's not an either-or situation by any
means," he told the News & Observer of Raleigh.
York is wrong. It may not be either-or for N.C.
State, but $300 million won't fund much of the
state's billion-dollar wish list of new educational
facilities. It's going to be either-or for something
with every project funded and that's only if the
General Assembly authorizes the bond referendum
NCSU Athletic Director Todd Turner has said the
Pack Shack would be the centerpiece of the
university's booster contribution drives for the next
50 years. That's nice, but it's not the state s job (read:
N.C. taxpayers' job) to help N.C. State butter up its
boosters and squeeze them for money.
The General Assembly, whose members report
edly have reached no consensus on the bond issue.
convenes Tuesday. Let s hope the Woltpack boost
ers have a big hill to climb. Public funding of a new
basketball arena anywhere in North Carolina is an
idea that ought to be swatted into the bleachers.
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'Hurlhead' deserves only the best after arrest
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hock washed in nauseating blue
waves over the University ot New
Jersev at Durham the other day
when news reports revealed the drunk
driving arrest of Coach K's point-one
guard, his lead rat, Bobby Hurling.
It seems Mr. Hurl was stopped in
Durham after demonstrating a unique
version of the four-wheel weave bas
ketball drill. Police on the scene admin
istered a breathalyzer twice. Baby blew
a 0.1 1 and a 0.10, either one a three
pointer on the inebriation scale.
Forgetting that blood alcohol levels
are like golf scores and best kept low,
Hurlhead started to claim the higher
tally before a sympathetic police officer
told htm he had the right to De stupid,
but not to drive drunk in the lane. The
cop added that maybe Booby should lay
off the whine.
Now. I don't mention all this to pro
mote anv sort of Burov Slurry-bashing
on the part of partisan Tar Heel fans. Far
trom it. 1 don t think BuDDty deserves
any more abuse than your average
Dookie.
With that in mind, however, it's time
to review a little pertinent history:
The Dookheads, also known as the
Cameron Crazies, and once upon a time
the Student Animals, over the years
have delighted in ridiculing opposing
ACC Dlavers who had a little run-in
with Johnny Law, plus a few who looked
funny.
Dean Smith thinks almost as poorly
of them as Rams Club members do of
UNC students (but that's another tale of
blear-eyedness). Sports Illustrated was
imDressed enoueh bv the Dookheads'
attitude to publish a five-page story on
their antics a tew years ago.
Matthew
Eisley
Say the
Word
A few
amplest
In the early
1970s, Mary
land had a for
ward named Jim
O'Brien, with
curly red hair
and fair skin.
During warm
ups at Cameron
one day a
Dookie wearing
a red Bozo-the-
Clown wig, a red rubber nose and floppy
shoes joined the lay-up line behind
O'Brien. The Crazies roared.
In 1979, UNC's Mike O'Koren's
acne prompted a Duke banner calling
him the OXY-1000 Poster Child.
In 1984, the Crazies pelted
Mary land' s Herman Veal, who had been
implicated in a sex assault episode, with
panties. One Dookie hoisted a sign that
read: "Hey Herm, did you send her
flowers?"
In 1985,afterN.C.State'sLorenzo
Charles stole two pizzas, the Dookheads
bombarded him with pizza boxes dur
ing warm-ups.
The next year, after Wolfpack
blockhead Chris "470" Washburn was
accused of stealing a friend's stereo,
they tossed album covers and LPs onto
the court.
The same year, in a show of con
summate maturity and sublime origi
nality, the Bunch of Geeks chanted "Pri
vate school, public school!" before the
Carolina game. They followed suc
cinctly with "We're smart, you're
dumb!" Side-splitters, those Crazies.
Nobby hasn t been arraigned yet, and,
who knows, maybe he'll plead out or
the Rodney King jury will find him not
guilty.
But the point isn't really Hurlo s
guilt, it's fairness. Because if there's
one thing Dookies have always wanted,
it's to be treated like Carolina students.
(Now that their basketball program is
just about on our level, that's more
likely. But they're still from New Jer
sey, they're still rich elitists and they're
still obnoxious as hell. Just ask Dean.)
We don't want to be unfair. In fact,
we owe it to Bippy to extend to him
every bit the same hospitality his Rat
Pack fans have shown others over the
years.
Now I'm not saying we should do
anything that might offend His Holi
ness Dean.
Don't think I'm suggesting that we
should, say, bury Hurlale in Blue Cups
from He's Not during warm-ups here
next season. I would never recommend
such a thing.
And I'm not proposing that we carry
into the Rams Dome those blue-light
flashlights you get at the circus, the
ones that resemble police lights.
I'm not even talking about wearing
convict-style clothing near court side,
or holding aloft Hurler mug shots.
Noooooooo. We here at the First
State University are too civilized for all
that. I don't think we should ever fail
not to disregard such a notion.
My only point is this: You've got to
give the devil his due.
Matthew Eisley, who will not miss
the wine-and-cheese crowd after he
graduates this summer, urges allyoung
sters to just say no to Dook.
Perot deceives America with outsider status
Billionaire cowboy Ross Perot is
saddled up and ready to ride to
our rescue but only if we say
"pretty please."
Perot'sTexas twang, legendary busi
ness success and simple "kick butt"
message have garnered national sup
port. His voluntary campaign army,
bankrolled by $100 million of Perot's
own money, is well on its way toward
putting this reluctant messiah on tne
ballot in all 50 states. Now that he's
considered a legitimate alternative to
the established political parties, it s time
to take a careful look at tne candidate
who fashions himself as a man of ac
tion, a humble "people's servant."
Perot casts himselt as a political out
sider, someone who will tell us the truth
and shake up life inside the Washington
Beltway. And yet, everytning aoout nis
informal campaign reflects the calcu
lated ambiguities andclever deceits that
he blasts in his opponents.
As a preeminent salesman, rerot sens
his myth that he is just a successful
businessman who reluctantly answered
a "spontaneous" surge of grassroots
support demanding he rescue America
from the career politicians.
This powerful populist has no pro
gram and no party, just a cult of person
ality. With politically adept maneuver
ing, he repeatedly has refused to talk in
detail about the major issues he would
face as president. Perot realizes dis
cussing specifics might destroy the
mass-based appeal of his candidacy.
Although he shouldn't be expected
to have an opinion on every govern
ment program, Perot shouldhave abroad
vision of where government should go
and how it should get there a vision
detailed enough to highlight which pro
grams should be curbed or expanded
and which taxes should be raised or cut.
So far, Perot has pledged toeliminate
fraud and waste. This age-old political
Calvin and Hobbes
Dacia Toll
Guest Writer
promise won't serve as a substitute for
a coherent national agenda.
Foran amateur aspiring to the nation's
highest political office, "trust me" is not
an adequate platform.
Perot recently disappeared on a 60
day retreat, a crash course in American
politics designed to educate him about a
diversity of complex issues.
While he attempts this impossible
task, the popular charade in which he
plays the honest, straight-talking out
sider candidate has been challenged by
numerous sources. Former White House
aides describe Perot as the "ultimate
insider." Perot apparently was an Oval
Office groupie during the Nixon ad
ministration who eagerly courted favor
from the Watergate gang.
William Safire, a high-level Nixon
aide, wrote about the old pro Perot, a
veteran of the business-politics com
plex who often asked for favors in pro
curing and protecting lucrative govern
ment contracts. In exchange, Perot
promised contributions to projects
aimed at boosting Nixon's image.
A battery of reporters, armed with
the artillery of the Republican cam
paign machine, has begun uncovering
additional details behind the Texan's
success. Extensive interviews with
Perot's adversaries and allies have re
vealed his penchant for intimidation
and reliance on strong-arm tactics.
This corporate cult figure is the same
man who reportedly recommended that
the city of Dallas combat its drug prob
lem by cordoning off impoverished
minority neighborhoods and conduct
ing house-to-house searches for drugs
and weapons. This "get tough" approach
makes for good soundbites but would
probably do little to alleviate the nation's
chronic drug problems perhaps and a
lot to endanger our precious constitu
tional protections against illegal search
and seizure.
Among the most disturbing revela
tions about Perot was a report that in
July 1989 he tried to intimidate the
publisher of The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
in an effort to quell negative news
coverage of a family-controlled Fort
Worth airport development. According
to publisher Richard Connor, Perot
hinted that he would embarrass the pa
per with photographs suggesting a ro
mantic involvement between a Star
Telegram employee and a city official.
This may be merely political hardball
to Perot, but in some circles it's called
blackmail.
Perot's candidacy, however, must be
appreciated. His pungent straight talk
has been an interesting twist in a typical
round of presidential politics. His direct
assaults on "the system" may force his
rivals to move toward a more searching
debate of national problems.
The political climate is ripe for an
independent candidacy. George Bush is
saddled with domestic stagnation and
haunted by the visage of Saddam
Hussein. Bill Clinton can't escape his
"Slick Willie" label or the baggage of
his party's failures. Voters obviously
are sick of politics bureaucratic stale
mate and congressional scandals.
But a national renaissance would re
quire patient persuasion, continual com
promise and a battery of specific plans.
Disgruntled voters shouldn't look to
Perot's simple business magic of Slick
maneuvering to provide a realistic es
cape from the nation's political strait
jacket. Dacia Toll is a rising junior political
science and economics major from
Belhesda, Md.
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