6The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, November 17, 1992
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Addressing the absurd
Once again, war-weary Chancellor Paul Hardin
has leapt on the defensive. Turning to his faithful
weapons of accusation and denial, our esteemed
chancellor has chosen to wage a public relations war
rather than directly address student concerns.
. On Friday, the UNC Board of Governors echoed
the student call for a re-evaluation of tenure alloca
tion to University professors. While the BOG seemed
open to examining a potential problem, Hardin re
fused to recognize the legitimacy of recent student
protests that criticized the University for prioritizing
research over teaching.
"It is unsettling for individual members of the
board to react to news accounts and to suggest that
any of our institutions punish good teaching," he
said. 'To suggest that is absurd."
' Well, Chancellor Hardin, thousands of students
who have signed recent petitions might beg to differ.
Loyal graduates and undergraduates have rallied to
save speech communication Assistant Professor Paul
Ferguson, who has been honored with three teaching
awards yet stands in jeopardy of losing his job.
Many more are troubled by the skewed tenure
allocation process that disproportionately rewards
professors who concentrate on the lab or the library
rather than the classroom. Several department heads
have admitted publicly that tenure decisions place a
greater emphasis on research than teaching or ser
; vice to the University community.
Without a doubt, original research is a crucial
component of any university. It delineates professors
from high-school teachers. Top-caliber universities
boast instructors who use their individual research to
enhance their performance in the classroom, expos
ing students to cutting-edge discoveries.
But the overall equation for rewarding professors
must balance these benefits with the primary mission
of the University educating its students. Instead of
continuing to look the other way, Hardin should live
up to his position at the helm of this University. The
chancellor is meeting this week with a group of
Ferguson's supporters. One can only hope the result
will be more dialogue and fewer denials.
In addition, Hardin should launch a comprehen
sive review of tenure decisions made on this campus
independent of the BOG inquiry. Such an investiga
tion could provide insight into a complicated process
that affects professors and the students they serve.
Go on Chancellor Hardin, give it a try. Take the
lead.
Help wipe out ethnic cleansing
Death camps. Starvation and neglect. Ethnic cleans
ing. These are all words that remind us of a different
era. These words were heard once before, in refer
ence to the murders of 6 million Europeans during
World War II.
One would think that the days of extermination of
innocent masses were over. "Never again," world
leaders said after allowin Hitler and his Nazi party to
carry out the near-genocide of the Jewish people.
But the world is right back where it started this
time watching the Muslim and Croatian citizens of
Bosnia march to their deaths. When most of us read
the news reports and see the pictures of suffering
people on television we feel sad momentarily. "How
terrible," we think to ourselves.
A group of student activists at UNC has decided
that rather than simply reading and watching the
reports of atrocities, they want to educate the UNC
community and raise funds for relief efforts.
The Bosnian Relief Committee has declared Nov.
1 6-23 Bosnian Awareness Week. The main events of
the week will be a rally and speaker in the Pit at noon
Thursday and an information session at 7 p.m. in
room 121 of Hanes Art Center the same day.
During Bosnian Awareness Week, the Bosnian
Relief Committee will have a table in the Pit where
they will distribute information about the crisis. To
inform the campus community, the committee also
will use an explicit video illustrating the severity of
the Bosnian crimes against humanity.
Thanks to the Bosnian Relief Committee, UNC
students and faculty are not doomed to sit back and
do nothing while thousands of innocent Bosnian
citizens are murdered. We now have the ability to
discover what really is happening and to help fund
relief efforts.
Go to the Pit to hear the speaker on Thursday or ask
questions at the information session. And bring a
friend. If Thursday is too busy, stop by the table in the
Pit one day this week and talk with some of the
students on the committee. Don't simply put the
newspaper down and feel IS seconds of sadness.
Find out what you can do to help change the ill fate
of the Muslim and Croat peoples in Bosnia. If you
don't help them, who will?
It is appalling that each time atrocities like these
are uncovered, we pledge to ourselves that they will
not happen again. One would think gross injustice
would have been alleviated long ago in our civilized,
modern world. Instead, we are still fighting it.
Join the army. Help bury ethnic genocide deep in
the ground.
Eat out tonight for charity
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Allen and Son Bar-tVQ
Aurora
Back Street's Cafe
Ben and Jerry's
Breadman's
Bud and Eb's Grill and Tavern
Cafe Lorenzo at Broad Street
Carolina Coffee Shop
Carolina Inn Garden Room
Carrboro Cafe at Weaver St Market
Chick-FiW
Columbia Street Bakery
Country Junction
Cracovia
Crook's Comer
Cucina Rustica
Dave's Seafood
Dip's Country Kitchen
Domino's Pizza
Dragon's Garden
El Rodeo
Elmo's Diner
Feanington House
Four Eleven West
Franklin St. Bar and Grill
Golden China Restaurant
Ham's
Hardback Cafe
Hello Delil
Henry's Bistro
Hunam Restaurant
II Palio at the Sienna Hotel
Jade Palace
Landlubber's Seafood Restaurant
La Residence
Lizzie Mae's Country Kitchen
Looking Glass Cafe
Maggie's Cafe and Espresso Bar
Marco Polo
Margaret's
Mariakakis Restaurant
Mark's Cafe
Market Cafe at Fearrington
Marto's Pizza
Mediterranean Deli
Nothing Could Be Finer Market Cafe
Oriental Garden Chinese and Thai Restaurant
Papagayo
Penguins at Wellspring
Pepper's Pizza
Pizza Chef Gourmet
Pyewacket Restaurant
Restaurant Halina
Rubens at the Omni Europa
Sal's Pizza and Restaurant
Second City Grill
Shoney's
Skykight Exchange
Slug's at the Pines Restaurant
Spanky's Restaurant
Squid's Restaurant and Oyster Bar
Subway Downtown
Subway Eastgate
Subway Glenwood Shopping Center
Subway Timberlyne
Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen
Sunshine Cafe
Swag's Cafe
Teddy's Restaurant at Holiday Inn
Thai Palace
Tijuana Fats
Tripodi's Deli and Restaurant
Tsing Tao Restaurant
Ye Olde Waffle Shop
Zorba's Cafe
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Israel: still waiting for its Charles De Gaulle
Almost five months ago, in a politi
cal change that foreshadowed the
recent American election, Israeli
voters voted the conservative Likud gov
ernment out of office.
There were, of course, many paral
lels to the American election. The Likud
campaign tried to raise questions about
Rabin's character: Television ads pub
licized a widely called telephone num
ber on which Israeli voters could listen
to an account of then General Rabin's
physical and nervous breakdown on the
eve of the Six Day War.
Likud campaigners distributed plas
tic cups inscribed with slogans accus
ing Rabin of having drinking problems.
In a response that mirrored Bill and
Hillary Clinton' s "60 Minutes" Gennifer
Flowers confession, Rabin went on tele
vision to discuss frankly both his drink
ing habits (which he confirmed) and his
pre-war breakdown (Rabin reminded
voters that without his military leader
ship and strategy, Jerusalem would still
be in Jordan's hands).
Rabin won, and 13 years of conser
vative Likud rule were over. Like
Clinton, Rabin won with much less than
the majority of the popular vote. But
Rabin's return to political power was
greeted with enthusiasm and euphoria
in Israel and in the United States that
was unmatched until, of course, Bill
Clinton's victory.
To be sure, in Israel there was never
any of the hyped nonsense about the
New Camelot in Little Rock, never any
of the silly comparisons between Clinton
and JFK.
For in the cynical, pessimistic Israeli
political culture, Rabin could never com
pare himself to the country's only hero
politician, David Ben-Gurion.
Rabin prematurely was anointed by
the Israeli intelligentsia and many left-
liberal-naive American Jews as Israel's
Charles De Gaulle, a heroic-mystical
figure so politically powerful and prag
matic that he could unite Israelis of all
political stripes and unilaterally pull
Israel out of the occupied territories and
also arrange a real peace treaty with the
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Wagner 1 1
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many Arab
countries at war
with the Jewish
state.
De Gaulle
had it much
easier.
Rabin began
his administra
tion by polariz
ing the voters
who elected
him. Rabin ap-pointed
Shulamit Aloni, a radically left-wing
politician to the highly sensitive posi
tion of minister of education. Aloni, in
a childish display of vengeance against
the political-religious establishment
which had rightly shut her out for years,
began to make her radical views on
Judaism widely known.
In a country where the political and
emotional balance between religious
and non-religious Jews is at best shaky,
Aloni's outbursts about the meaning of
the Bible inflamed Israel's religious
population. Her position at the head of
the powerful Ministry of Education
worried many Orthodox and Hasidic
Jews whose schools depend on the
Ministry' st financial largess. Most of
the religious parties that had joined
Rabin' s parliamentary coalition walked
out because of Aloni's appointment,
and Rabin's coalition weakened.
The Aloni appointment was a par
ticularly stupid political move, but Rabin
will survive it. Israel's deteriorating
security situation, however, could well
force Rabin to abandon his party 's doves,
like Aloni, and to act dramatically.
Fighting in southern Lebanon be
tween Israeli troops and Hizbollah guer
rillas intensified recently. Several Is
raeli soldiers were killed by roadside
bombs, and the pro-Iranian Hizbollah
guerrillas have shot 50 Katushya rock
ets into northern Israeli towns, forcing
their residents into the familiar bomb
shelters. The Israel Defense Force
massed tanks and troops on the border
between Israel and Lebanon to deter
further attacks, and the air force de
stroyed several Hizbollah camps.
The tension on the Israel-Lebanon
border is not especially unusual, but it is
an embarrassment for Rabin. While
Rabin's peace negotiators in Washing
ton apparently are proposing to return
most of the Golan Heights to Syria in
exchange for a peace treaty, it turns out
that Syria, which essentially controls
Lebanon, is allowing weapons, money
and intelligence to reach the Hizbollah
guerrillas.
On the West Bank, after the Labor
government stopped the building of new
settlements, reopened schools, un
blocked roadways, pardoned thousands
of Palestinians from prison and super
vised local elections, Rabin is again
confronted with a political embarrass
ment and a resounding we-told-you-so
from conservative Israelis. Because the
violence of the Intifadah largely has
been turned inward, Rabin now has a
difficult time convincing Israelis that
the Palestinians peacefully will be able
to govern themselves.
In what has been described as the
"Palestinian Meltdown," Palestinian
political factions have degenerated into
violent death squads. The Black Pan
ther gang, allied with Fatah; the Red
Eagles gang, allied with the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine;
and the al-Kassem gang, allied with the
Islamic Fundamentalist Hamas, are ter
rorizing the Palestinian population.
Beheadings, mutilations, gouging out
of eyes and pouring acid or molten
plastic on victims' faces have become
commonplace.
The euphoria that followed Rabin's
election now firmly has been replaced
by reality. Rabin's poor domestic moves
and the rising tensions on Israel's bor
ders and in the West Bank seriously are
weakening Rabin's mandate for change
and for peace.
Israel still waits for its De Gaulle.
Eric Wagner is a senior biology and
political science major from Jerusalem.
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Department chairman's
statement misunderstood
To the editor:
I was rather distressed to find myself
inaccurately quoted in The Daily Tar
Heel in a news story dealing with the
tenure process.
I was quoted as having said regard
ing faculty participation in research,
"That's what they are hired for. That's
what they are evaluated on (sic)." What
I actually said was that in a major re
search university, you would naturally
expect that the research productivity
and research promise is of great import
in making hiring decisions and contin
ues to be a major factor in tenure and
promotion decisions.
I was sufficiently disturbed by the
inaccurate quotation that I spoke to Anna
Griffin, University editor, about my
concerns. She said that she was sur
prised when she saw the quotes and had
the author of the article recheck them. I
thought it would have been far wiser to
contact me to recheck them rather than
.V
to ask the author. She further advised
me that in the future I should always ask
to have quotes read back. In the future,
it seems to me, that the editors and the
writers of stories ought to read back
quotes to those whom they are attempt
ing to quote directly.
To add insult to injury, and as a
testament to communication problems
at The Daily Tar Heel, on the following
day, Wednesday, the lead editorial mis
quotes and further distorts the intent of
my communication. At least in the news
article it indicated that I said that teach
ing was also important. The editorial
writer chooses to use the misquotes as
evidence that "Faculty members and
department chairmen make no bones
about the fact that research not teach
ing reign supreme as a factor that can
make or break a tenure-track profes
sor." While the author of the editorial ini
tially writes as if he or she understands
the nature of the demands and charac
teristics of a research university, he
chooses to lose that perspective and
make a sophomoric argument about the
central importance of classroom teach
ing to the undergraduate mission of the
University.
In our department, and I think in
most others at the University, we strive
to attract, as members of the faculty,
people who have a broad range of com
petencies, not the least of which is the
capacity to be excellent teachers. More
over, we are very frequently successful
in finding highly talented people who
are capable of making contributions to
many aspects of the University's mis
sion. Perhaps it would be more seemly for
The Daily Tar Heel to celebrate our
success in finding, attracting and retain
ing multitalented people, rather than
bemoaning the fact that on occasion,
people whose capacity to contribute to
the range of the University's mission is
limited to one area and to demand that
those limited in that way be granted
permanent tenure.
DAVID GALLNSKY
Professor and department chairman
Psychology
Tis the week to help the hungry and homeless
Editor's note: The author is co
chairwoman of the Hunger and
Homelessness Outreach Project.
To the editor:
From Nov. 16 through Nov. 20,
UNC will be observing National Hun
ger and Homelessness Week. Spon
sored by the National Student Cam
paign Against Hunger and
Homelessness nationally and by the
Hunger and Homelessness Outreach
Project on campus, the week serves to
raise awareness among students.
There will be activities this week on
500 campuses across the country. On
our campus, we have planned many
exciting events.
: The week began yesterday with our
keynote speaker, Jane Crosby, the di
rector of Oxfam Fast for World Har
vest. Monday also marked the kick off
the week-long Sleepout for the Home
less, co-sponsored by HOPE and Habi
tat for Humanity. Individuals and
groups will be sleeping out in the Pit
through Thursday to raise awareness
and funds for the homeless. We hope to
have teams from many different cam
pus groups from athletic teams to
religious groups out thereeach night
: Today, the sleepout will continue,
and area restaurants will sponsor
RSWP night. Each year these restau
rants pledge to give 1 0 percent of their
proceeds from dinner to an area shelter;
proceeds from participating Chapel Hill
restaurants will go to the Inter-Faith
Council Community House.
The many restaurants m our area that
are taking part have posted signs in their
windows, so be sure to support them
today.
: Wednesday, begins the annual Oxfam
FastforWorldHarvest. Individuals will
be fasting from 5 p.m. Wednesday until
5 p.m. Thursday, getting pledges and
giving off their meal cards, all for Oxfam
America. The fast is a huge event, with ?
participation from the community, fac
ulty and staff as well as students. Thou
sands of dollars are raised every year
to benefit trie grass-roots development
projects of Oxfam America, and we
are planning for an even bigger suc
cess this year.
Thursday will bring the conclusion
of the fast and the sleepout The
Newman Center is hosting a Break
fast at 5 p.m.; there will be food and a
program to commemorate the success
ful fast.
After the Break-fast, Habitat for
Humanity is hosting Dave McDaniels,
director of Campus Chapters of Habi
tat International, as our second key
note speaker. He will speak in the Pit
as the finale for the sleepout
All in all, we are going to have a
week full of great learning and sharing
opportunities, and we hope you will be
able to enjoy it with us. ,
CELESTE PRYE
Sophomore
International studies