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?lie iEaHt ?ar0ltman
Vol. 64 No. 31
Wednesday May 23,1989
Serving the East Carolina campus community since 1925.
Greenville, North Carolina
Circulation 5,000
12 Pages
ECU offers new
doctoral degree
in education
By Kimley Eder
Staff Writer
fhis young lady meets Sparky the fire dog at the annual neonatal graduation party held this past Saturday I he graduates and their parents
were served refreshments at the event in which more than 300 attended. (Photo by J.D. Whitrmre ? ECU photo lab)
Neonatal unit holds graduation party
BvTonia Entires
SUfi Writer
Former patients of the neona-
tal unit at Pitt County Memorial
Hospital attended a graduation
part) Saturday.
"he party, which was held ? a
park beside the Brody Medical
Sciences Building, has been going
on for more than 10 years It is a
way for the unit to reunite the
children with the doctors and
nurses who cared tor them.
According to Rhonda Mills, a
nurse in the neonatal unit, there
were more than 300children and
parents at the graduation party.
!he oldest child graduated from
the unit in 1978, and the youngest
several weeks ago. Refreshments
were sen ed and the children were
able to participate m face painting
and see Sparkv the tire dvc.
Vanessa Beamer, head nurse
of the neonatal unit, saidIt is
really neat to see the children come
back ' She said they often don't
recognize the children because
they have grown up so much, but
they recognize the parents.
the neonatal untt ot the
Children's Hospital of Eastern
orth Carolina at Pitt County
Memorial Hospital serves 29 coun-
ties in North Carolina. Beamer said
they are often short of beds. She
said there is a state program called
Firs! Step that educates the public,
since North Carolina has the high-
est infant mortality rate in the
United States.
There is a high incidence of
teen-age pregnancy , especially in
eastern Norm Carolina. Many of
the young women do not receive
prenatal care, which directly re-
lates to some of the premature
babies.
Beamer said. "There is just
something about a new born baby
thai is struggling to live the
nurses and doctors breathe life into
it" Many babies in the neonatal
unit weigh one pound and have
been born three months eai ?
As she walks around the busy
unit. Beamer explains the babies
situations ? how much they
weigh, what their names are and
when they were born. She said,
"We think premature babies are
the most beautiful babies in the
world
"It is very emotional Beamer
said. The nurses become attached
to the babies. She said the nurses
often feel like surrogate mothers
and become very close to the real
mothers of the babies. It a baby
dies the nurses often go to the
funeral.
Beamer said the neonatal field
is basically a new one. "It is a very-
ethical area to work in but we feel
we are giving a life to a child who
might otherwise not have one
she said. "They didn't ask to be
bom they didn't ask to be con-
ceived.
Often times the lungs of pre-
mature babies are not fully devel-
ped, so they are unable to get a
full breath of air. Due to advanced
technology, a machine pushes air
into their lungs and keeps them
inflated. Many oi the babies have
to be kept warm by special lamps
orincubator-Ukebedsbecausemey
were born with less body fat than
full term babies.
The graduation party is proba-
bty the most important one the
children will ever attend, and the
most rewarding one for their par-
ents and nurses and doctors.
ECU now has a new doctoral
degree program in educational
leadership for public school ad-
ministrators and others in senior
level administrative positions in
the public schools.
This makes ECU the fourth
school out of the 16 constituent
universities in the University ol
North Carolina system to offer a
doctoral degree not in the medical
or science fields. Currently only
UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State and
UNC-Greensboro offer doctoral
programs. UNC-Greensboro will
also offer this particular doctoral
program.
According to the ECU News
Bureau, the doctorial program in
educational leadership will be
ECU's first doctoral program ?mi
side the MD in the School of
Medicine and the Ph.D in certain
basic medical science disciplines,
offered through the graduate
school.
The new program is seen as a
step toward ECU becoming a re-
search university, which will help
in securing more funds for the
university.
According to Dr. H.C Hudg-
ins, r. of the School oi Education,
the emphasis of the program is on
leadership. He said mat the pi
gram will teach practical and lead-
ership skills to public school
administrators.
Hudgins also said that the
program will focus on problems
commonly seen in this part of the
state, such as reducing illiteracy
arid dropout rates, dealing with
problem students, responding to
latchkey children and changing
family lifestyles and developing
civic leadership among young
people.
The program will also focus
on creative ways of getting finan-
cial support for schools, bringing
about a better understanding for
the need for education among
parents, and the relationship be-
tween good health and education.
Hudgins said that approxi-
mately 10 full-time students will
enter the program this fall. The
students w ill go through the pro-
gram as a cohort and will collabo-
rate together, he said. The pro-
gram will be supplemented by
seminars, workshops and collabo-
rative field experiences. Hudgins
said, "We believe we're ready ?
we believe we've done enough
preparation
I Nr harles R. Coble, dean of
the School of Education, said, "We
anticipate substantial fellowship
assistance from the state of North
Carolina.rangmgfroma minimum
f$15r000toamaxunurnof $30,000
for each student
I he program consists of 60
semester hours beyond a master's
degree, and a one-year residency-
will be required. There may be
funds available for doctoral fel-
lowships along with matching
funds from the public schools.
Minority leadership
program set for fall
By Kimley Eder
Staff Writer
ECU art student wins Best in Show
Bv Colleen Kirkpatrick
stjff Writer
An ECU art graduate student
won Best in Show at the Rocky
Mount Art Gallery on May 13.
Scott F.agleentered a painting,
a mix media print and a sculpture
His painting. The Savior won
Best in Show and his sculpture.
My Introduction to Misconcep-
tion won second place.
Fagle used his interest in
Cherokee myths and symbols to
begin the painting tor the Rocky
Mount show He began bv paint-
ing a fish as the focal point oi the
picture and proceeded to create
from there. He said that he also
gets a lot of ideas from hisdreams,
and he describes his style oi paint-
ing as "figurative abstraction
Eagle was pleased with his
work that he entered in the Rocky
Mount Art Gallery, "I entered these
shows to get exposure, hoping that
gallery owners and people that
buy art will recommend my work
to others he said.
Eagle began taking art lessons
at age five. He said he has had an
interest in art all of his life. His
mother enrolled him in an art class
at a voung age because he was
always drawing.
Eagle said that his work was
rejected manv times when he first
started entering shows, but that
eventually it became accepted and
all the hard work paid off. He
explained that art work could be
rejected at one show and win first
place at another. "The more shows
you enter, the better galleries you
get in Eagle said.
Ray Elmore, one oi the show's
judges and also a professor at ECU,
said that one could view an art
show much like a dog show ? all
of the entries are good, it is just a
matter of what stands out and
appeals to the eye.
Elmore said that Eagle's work
stood out. "It was the strongest
piece there he said. "Scott had
good use of imagination and tech-
nical skills He went on to say that
Eagle's work communicated well
with the viewers.
The gallery showed the art
work for a week after the contest.
There were approximately 500
entries out of which only 40 to 50
See Art, page 2
Beginning fall, 1990 ECU will
choose 10 African-American stu-
dents from the entering freshman
class to participate in the
Chancellor's Minority Student
Leadership Intern Program.
"The goal of the program is to
provide first war minontv student
leaders with the skills needed to
take on active leadership roles
said Dr. Larrv Smith, director of
ECU'S Office of Minontv Student
Affairs. Smith said that the pur-
pose of the program is to give
minontv students an idea of how-
university organizations work so
thev can learn how to work in
them.
Smith said that hopefully the
skills the students learn while in
the program will be used through-
out their college career and after
graduation.
The students selected will
receive a 1,000 stipend while they
are in the program. The program
is open to incoming freshmen
minontv students only, and is not
renewable. "It is hoped that after
the first ear, students will qualify
for leadership positions on cam-
pus that offset the loss of the sti-
pend, " Smith said.
Students are assigned an in-
ternship in a given area on cam-
pus, depending on their interests.
Supervisors in these departments
will work with the Office of Mi-
nontv Student Affairs to help
evaluate the students' perform-
ance. In addition, the students
will keep journals, complete ques-
tionnaires and attend seminars to
See Minority, page 2
11 New 'candidacy status'
given to ECU program
ECU News Bureau
ECU's marriage and family
planning program has risen in
status.
The Marriage and Family
TherapyProgramhasbeengranted into full compliance,
status under new and more strin-
gent standards recently adopted
by A AM FT.
"Programs granted candidacy
status are m general agreement
with the accreditation standards
and have up to three years to come
said Dr.
"candidacy status" by the Ameri-
can Association for Marriage and
Family Therapy's Accreditation
Commission. The candidacy pe-
riod is effective through 1992.
Candidacy' is a new status
David Dosser, director of the ECU
Marriage and Family Therapy
Program.
"Students graduating dunng
the candidacy period are afforded
the same benefits as those students
Mendenhall remodels
ECU student Stephanie Folsom tries out the new furniture in Mendenhall. (Photo by J.D. Whitmire)
designed for beginning programs who graduate after the program
not yet eligible for full accredita- hasbeen fully accredited hesaid.
tion because no students have The AAMFT Accreditation
graduated said Dr. Helen Grove, Commission is authorized by the
dean of the ECU School of Home U.S. Department of Education to
Economics. accredit marriage and family ther-
She said ECU's program is apy degree programs and post-
the first in the nation to receive this See Status, page 2
Inside
State and Nation3
Senate candidates
Gantt and Eastey blast
Helms for opposing
AIDS measures.
Editorial4
N.C. budget cuts are
affecting ECU and other
schools.
Features6
Attic owner, Tom
Haines, discusses high-
lights of the club's his-
tory.
Classifieds9
Comics101
Sports11
Pirates travel to Florid
for regionals.
2 The East Carolinian, May 23,1990
ECU Briefs
Milk: it does a body good
Campus safety program wins award
ECU has won an award of merit from the Campus Safety Associa-
tion of the National Safety Council for its campus safety program, the
second highest award presented to colleges and universities for safety
programs.
Hergert Oxendine, director of ECU'S campus safety program will
attend a conference on campus safety July 1-6 in Blacksburg, Va. The
national awards will be presented at a banquet July 5.
"Sharing your information and ideas with safety personnel from
other campuses is one of the most valuable aspects of this award
program the National Safety Council told Oxendine in a letter.
ECU Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs Richard Brown said the
national award "is a terrific achievement and continues a level of
recognition that Oxendine and his staff well deserve
ECU reaches record enrollment
ECU has a record enrollment of 6,241 students on campus for the
first session of summer school which began last week. It marks the first
time that summer school enrollment has exceeded 6,000 for a single
session and is 475 more than were registered a year ago.
Registrar J. Gilbert Moore said the summer session enrollment
includes5,135 undergraduates and 1,106 graduate students. Last year's
first summer session enrollment was 5,766.
Pathologist given new appointment
A pathologist at the ECU School of Medicine hasbeen appointed to
serve on the Allcrgenic Products Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration.
Dr. Donald R. Hoffman, professor of pathology and an authority on
insect sting allergy, will serve a four-year term. The nine-member
committee monitors the saf tey and effectiveness of products used in the
diagnosis, prevention or treatment of allergies and allergic disease.
Hoffman, a member of the ECU medical faculty since 1977, was
invited to serve on the committee by Dr. Louis H. Sullivan, secretary of
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Dosimetry program graduates two
Two students have graduated from the medical dosimetry pro-
gram offered through the ECU School of Medicine.
Bryan W. McRoy and Suresh K. Ramhendar completed the nine-
month certificate program, which prepares individuals for work in this
field associated with radiation oncology.
McRoy, from Evansville, Ind received his radiation therapy tech-
nology training at the Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. Ramhendar,
from Washington, DC, trained at Howard University in thatcity. Both
will take certification boards in June.
The medical dostmetrist is m integral member of the radiation
oncology team in its management of patients with cancer. The dosimet-
rist is responsible for planning the radiation treatment, calculation and
measuring the appropriate radiation dose, and assuring the quality of
the treatment.
The medical dosimetry program, one of only eight in the country,
is conducted by the ECU Department of Radiation Oncology in con-
junction with the ECU Division of Continuing Education.
Lung association has new president
Carolyn Fulghum, assistant vice chancellor for student life and
director of housing at ECU, is the new president of the American Lung
Association of North Carolina, the state's oldest voluntary health
agency.
Fulghum, a native oi Rock Ridge in Wilson County, was installed
Saturday at the 1989-90 annual meeting of the association in Greens-
boro. She succeeds Donald VV. Sink of Boone.
She became interested in the work of the Lung Association as a
volunteer stuffing envelopes with Christmas Seals and has been active
for many years on the state and regional level. Fulghum has served in
various volunteer capacities.
Fulghum said she plans to focus on educational and support
programs for children with respiratory disease and also concentrate on
educating people about the services provided by the Lung Association.
She said she would strive for more volunteer involvement.
Student's research draws attention
A student at the ECU School of Medicine whose research has drawn
the attention of scientists at the National Institutes of Health has been
selected to participate in the agency's scholars program.
Laura Harris is among 36 students from medical schools nation-
wide selected to be a member of the Class of 1990-91 in the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute-National Institutes in an N1H laboratory of
her choice as well as completing medical education requirements.
Harris, formerly of Goldsboro and a second-year medical student
at ECU, has been studying fatty particles in the blood known as low-
density lipoproteins. Through her research, she has been able to distin-
guishcharacteristicsof the fat particles that may contribute to increased
risk of heart disease.
More specifically, she has focused on LDLs in men with a body
shape known as the "pot belly She has shown that LDLs in men who
have pot bellies differ significantly from the ones in men who do not.
Her research previously received recognition from the National
Student Research Forum, the country's foremost competition for stu-
dent biomedical research projects.
By Renee Friend
Health Program Assistant
Where's the bone? That is the
question that many women are
asking their doctors. Osteoporo-
sis strikes as many as 24 million
Americans each year, particularly
women.
No one ever out grows the
need forcalciumintheirdiet. From
the time they are very young, chil-
dren are taught the importance of
drinking milk because it gives
strong, healthy bones and teeth.
Yet, calcium deficiency affects at
least 87 percent of teen-age girls
today. These teen-age girls are at a
risk to bone mineral loss later in
life which leads to osteoporosis.
Ninty-nine percent of the cal-
cium in the body is found in the
bones and teeth. The other one
percent circulates in the blood
helping the body's organs. When
the body does not get enough cal-
cium, it starts taking the calcium
from the bones which then makes
them brittle and causes them to
become weak.
This weakening of the bones
causes osteoporosis which causes
low back pain, a hunched back,
loss of height, increased risk of
fractures to the bones and a loss of
bone that supports the teeth.
A survey by the U.S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture found that 68
percent of A mertcans d id not meet
the recommended dietary allow-
ances for calcium. The latest RDA
for adults is 800 milligrams of
calcium per day.
Someexperts suggest between
1,000 milligrams and 1,500 milli-
grams per day to help reduce the
risk of osteoporosis. Calcium can-
not be produced by the body
One's diet must supply the cal-
cium it needs for a healthy body
Calcium can be obtained in
foods such as milk, yogurt, cheese,
ice cream, seafood, beans, broc-
coli, collards, spinach, spaghetti,
almonds and tofu. By consuming
calcium-rich foods throughout
one's life now, the risk of later
bone disorders is reduced. Re-
member the old saying. "Milk, it
does a body good
For more information on diet
and osteoporosis come by the
Student Health Service Resource
Room located on the second floor
of the Student Health Center. "To
Your Health" is a weekly health
education and information col-
umn. Please direct any questions
or suggestions to 757-6794.
ihe loul ulim
Air Force ROTC wins imaumai
five national awards
ECU News Bureau
The ECU detachment of the
Air Force ROTC has won five
national awards including the
most outstanding medium-sized
squadron of the Arnold Air Soci-
ety in the nation.
During the past two years, the
Arnold Air Society Angel Right
of ECU'S AFROTC has won 27
regional and national awards for
support of the university, com-
munity, ROTC and the Air Force
and individual leadership.
Awards won at the AASAF
National Convention in Atlanta
last month include: Outstanding
Squadron (from among 19 me-
dium-sized squadrons from AF-
ROTC areas); Best Air Force Asso-
ciation Relations (19 squadrons
nominated); Outstanding Area
Commander: Cadet Daniel A.
Dant, Goldsboro, N.C Outstand-
ing A AS Staff Officer, Director of
Administration: Cadet Stephanie
Troutman, Oxford, Ohio; and
Outstanding Area Advisor: Lt.
Art
Col. William N. Patton, professor
of aerospace studies.
"I feel such awards bring
considerable prestige to ECU
through publicity and through the
local civicveterans organization
with which we are associated
Patton said.
The Arnold Air Society is a
national professional service or-
ganization consisting o( top AF-
ROTC cadets. Angel Right is a
national service and booster or-
ganization.
"Both have represented ECU
with distinction, earning unprece-
dented regional and national rec-
ognition said public affairs offi-
cer Steve Minnick of Detachment
600, AFROTC at ECU.
Minnick added that this year
ECU'S Kittv Hawk Squadron
served as the Area Headquarters
for all N.C. squadrons.
The AASAF presented the
Hagan Trophy to the ECU squad-
ron asOutstanding Medium-Sized
Squadron, and the LeMay Ohio
Award for outstanding AirTbrce
Association relations.
Continued from page 1
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day than most people do
before 9 am.
Or something like that.
Design of the Times offers.
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werechosen for the actual contest.
On the first day everything was
shown outside on the sidewalk
The art work was judged in
fivecategones with a first, second
and third place. There was a show
fee of $15.
Eagle said there were four or
five other ECU students and one
faculty member at the show. He
said that most of the same artists
enter the shows.
Eagle worked on his award-
winning painting for about six
months. He said there were a lot of
working hours put into the paint-
ing. He prices his work according
to how much time he puts into it
and how much he really wants to
sell it. The painting at the Rocky
Mount show was priced at $1500.
Eagle also won a "Best in
Show" at a gallery in Wilson, N.C.
He priced that painting at $3000.
He said he worked on it for three
yean and did not want anyone to
buv it.
Eagle is a 1986 graduate of
ECU with an undergraduate de-
gree in illustration. He is now in
graduate school working on his
masters degree in painting.
On June 1, Eagle and another
ECU student, Steve Reid. will be
showing their art work at Arling-
ton Hall, an art gallery located on
Arlington Boulevard.
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give them the leadership skills they provided. He said that hopefully
Continued from page 1
Crime Report
Officers investigate bird in library
May 15
1112 ? Officer assisted Greenville Rescue at the General Class
Room building in reference to a subject having a seizure. The subject
was gone when Greenville Rescue and ECU PD arrived.
1255 ? Two officers checked out Jones residence hall in reference
to a suspicious vehicle. The student was given a verbal warning for
reckless driving.
0116 ? Officer stopped vehicle on 5th and Maple for speeding. The
non-student was given a verbal warning.
May 16
0108 ? Officer stopped vehicle on 9th and Cotanche for speeding.
The staff member was given a verbal warning for a stop light violation.
May 17
0938 Two officers conducted a follow-up investigation of case
90-0190 which resulted in the arrest of a subject at the General
Classroom building.
1415 ? Two officers responded to east 10th Street at ECU Public
Safety in reference to the operator of a vehicle being ill. Greenville PD
and Rescue were dispatched.
0012 ? Officer stopped vehicle at Spilman because subject was
intoxicated while driving. The student was taken to the magistrate's
office. The subject was initially given a state citation for a stop sign
violation.
1632 ? Two officers responded to Joyner Library in reference to a
bird that was trapped in the book stacks. The bird found its way out.
TW Chmu Report u Uktn from offtcUtl ECU PtUc Safttf log$
need. Smith said.
Students in the program will
be required to hold active leader-
ship roles in the residence hall
system, the Student Government
Association or the Student Union.
Darek McCullers of Raleigh, a
currently-enrolled African-Ameri-
can honors student, proposed the
program and presented the pro-
posal to Chancellor Eakin. Eakin
approved the proposal and pro-
vided the funding to begin the
program in fall, 1990.
Smith said the program will
continueas long as funding can be
the program can be expanded to
include more students, in the fu-
ture.
Approximately 100 incoming
freshmen have been invited to
apply for the program.
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Continued from page 1
degree training programs.
In June 1988, ECU received
approval from the UNC General
Administration to offer the state's
first Master of Science degree
program track in marriage and
family therapy.
Working with Dosser in the
program are three clinical faculty
members: Drs. Shelly Green, Nash
Love and Edward "Mel" Markow-
ski. The programoperates through
the ECU department of child
development and family relations
in the School of Home Economics.
Ice Cream Bingo Parties
Wednesdays
May 23 TODAY
M ay 30
June 6
Mendenhall
Multi-Purpose Room
Concert on the Mall
STAIRCASE
will per f o r m
Monday June 4 8 pm
(rainsite: Mendenhall
Social Room)
For more information about what's up at ECU,
call the Student Union Program Hotline 757-6004
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State and Nation
May 23,1990
Senate candidates Gantt
and Easley blast Helms for
opposing AIDS measures
Democratic U.S. Senate can-
didates Harvey Gantt and Mike
Easley targeted Sen. Jesse Helms
rather than each other in campaign
appearances Saturday, with Gantt
blasting the Republican for op-
posingan A IDS measure last week.
"1 thought he embarrassed the
peopieof North Carolina by show-
ing no compassion for the AIDS
victims in our society, for show-
ing a lack of understanding as to
what in fact has caused that prob-
lem to exist, by setting people off
against each other such as trying
to divide homosexuals away, to
make them something less than
being human Gantt said after a
brief appearance at the 4th Dis-
trict Democratic Convention.
Meanwhile. Helms, at a rally
in Coldsboro, said complacency
among voters, not an opposing
politician, is his chief campaign
concern.
1 hear far too often, 'Jesse's
got it made " Helms said at the
rally at Carolina Warehouse, at-
tended by nearly 300 people.
Well. lesse ain't got it made.
"No matter who theother side
nominates, if it's Mortimer Snerd,
they're going to get 40 or 45 per-
cent of the vote in November, right
oft the top. rsgoing to depend on
people in this state who believe in
conservative principles to get to
the polls
On the floor of the Senate this
week. Helms spoke against a $600
million bill that supporters said
would provide emergency relief
for communities and local health
systems overburdened with AIDS
cases. Helms charged that too
much money was being spent on
AIDS at the expense of other dis-
eases and that the money would
encourage homosexuality.
"What originally began as a
measured response to a public
health emergency has become a
weapon, frankly, for the deterio-
ration if not the destruction of
America's Judeo-Christian value
system Helms said.
But Gantt said that Helms
"demonstrated a kind of mean-
spiritedness that doesn't go with
his so-called Judeo-Christian val-
ues
"I just thought it was an em-
barrassing performance and an-
other example of how irrelevant
he is to the times we live inGantt
spoke for about 15 minutes to the
40 people gathered for the 4th
District's women's brunch in
Raleigh but spoke only briefly
during the convention later. He
also made stops Saturday at the
2nd District convention in Nash-
ville and in Burlington.Helms said
Saturday that the$3 billion sought
by Congress for AIDS research
would take away money for re-
search into other diseases such as
cancer, heart disease and
Alzheimer's.
Easley, who campaigned in
Asheville before a speech in Mor-
ganton, also blasted Helms, argu-
ing against his positions on issues
ranging from education and the
environment to abortion and
homosexuality.
Easley said in Morganton it's
time for Democrats to "focus on
the issues and make (Helms') rec-
ord an issue. We've never done
that; we've always got caught up
in national politics and that's a
mistake. We need to focus on local
issues and that's what I've done
Gantt won the endorsement
Friday of former political rival
John Ingram, and was met with
questions Saturday over Ingram's
requests to be paidjor any cam-
paign expenses. Gantt said there
was no offer to pay Ingram for his
endorsement or to send him out
on the campaign trail at the Gantt
campaign's expense.
"He said, 'If you want me to
campaign for you, then you're
going to have to compensate me
for my time " Gantt said. "But
my style isbasically 1 like to do my
own campaigning. I've since heard
that money offers were being
made, but I can't speak to that
The two discussed the issues
of health insuraneeandtheavaila-
bility of health care, but Gantt did
not agree to introduce Ingram's
See Easley, page 5
Source. Congressional Quarterly. April, 1990
Gannett News Service
Superior Court drug cases
increase with new state laws
RALEIGH (AP) ? A state law
making possession of cocaine a
felony has increased the number
of drug cases in Superior Courts,
but it ha snot necessarily convicted
more people.
The law, which went into ef-
fect Oct. 1,1989, makes possession
of any amount of cocaine a felony.
Contested cases are handled in
Superior Court; the maximum
penalty is five years in prison.
Prior to the new law, posses-
sion of less than 1 gram of cocaine
was a misdemeanor and was
handled in District Court.
In April, a Wake County jury
found a suspect innocent after
police said they found one-tenth
of a gram of cocaine in the person's
apartment.
"When you are in a drug case,
you expect to see a quantity more
than one-tenth of a gram of co-
caine Donna Kee, one of the ju-
rors, said in an interview last week.
The law was meant primarily
to deal more harshly with sellers
of crack cocaine, which comes in a
small, smokable form. But in prac-
tice, the law is snaring users of
powder cocaine.
Anita Quigless, a Wake
County assistant district attorney,
recently tried a cocaine case in
which the jury returned with a
not-guilty verdict. She said thecase
was "bothersome because in my
mind they (jurors) were saying it's
OK to have a little cocaine
That case involved a nurse
whose car had plowed into a
vehicle parked on Interstate 40 in
Raleigh. A second car had struck
the nurse's car after it came to a
halt in a traffic lane. Police later
discovered a crushed glass vial of
white powder in the woman's
pants. It tested positive for cocaine.
Ms. Quigless said the small
amount of cocaine had hurt the
case.
"A jury needs something they
can latch onto she said.
The law has led to a dramatic
increase in drug cases for Supe-
rior Courts.
Felony drug cases have in-
creased by more than 37 percent
in the past nine months, and many
are cocaine possession cases, Fran-
klin Freeman Jr director of the
N.C Administrative Office of the
Courts, told The News and Observer
of Raleigh.
In Wake County, where court
officials are looking at an addi-
tional 500 cases a year, District
Attorney Colon Willoughby Jr.
says that although he favors the ,
new law, it is impractical.
"We'repTobablygoirtohavo
to look at some misdemeanor
prosecution for small amounts
See Drugs, page 5
N.C. prison population rises
at country's slowest rate
Proposed salt water dump in
Currituck Sound discussed
RALEIGH (AP) ? The state's
top law enforcement official says
North Carolina's prison popula-
tion rose at the country's slowest
pace because there isn't enough
room in jails to keep inmates in-
carcerated.
From the end of 1980 through
the end of 1989, the number of
people sent to state prisons rose
by 58 percent, ranking North
Carolina sixth in the nation, ac-
cording to the state Department of
Corrections.
But during the same period,
the state's prison population rose
just 15.5 percent, according to a
report issued Sunday from the
Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Where did all the inmates go?
Back onto the streets, due to a lack
of space in the state's prisons and
a law that sets a ceiling on the
prison population, says Correc-
tion Secretary Aaron Johnson.
"If nothing else, these new
figures from the Bureau of Justice
Statistics show us that North Caro-
lina desperately needs to expand
its prison capacity Johnson said.
"The public demands more from
state government than revolving-
door justice
N ationwide, the prison popu-
lation grew by an average of 113.7
percent during the 1980s. Califor-
nia, with a 262.5 percent increase,
led the nation in percentage of
prison population growth in the
period.
A 1987 law aimed at easing
crowding in the North Carolina's
prisons mandatesa systemof early
paroles when the inmate popula-
tion reaches a ceiling level, or
"cap
"Although the Prison Cap has
stabilized the state prison popula-
tion, it has also resulted in a dras-
tic reduction in the percentage of
original prison sentences con-
victed offenders are serving
Johnson said.
"Since the imposition of the
Prison Cap, we have been placed
in the position of having to let one
person out the back door evtry
time someone comes in the front
door Johnson said. "This has
severely undermined public con-
fidence in North Carolina's crimi-
nal justice system
According to the federal re-
port, the number of people sent to
prison from the end of 1980
through 1988 rose to 221 per
100,000 adult residents, the sixth
highest rate of court-committed
prison admissions in the country.
The District of Columbia recorded
392 admissions per 100,000, the
highest rate in the nation.
Florida is the leading state
with 356 prison admissions per
100,000, while Tennessee was the
lowest during the 1980s, with 41
court-committed admissions per
100,000 adults.
COROLLA, N.C. (AP) ? The
state Division of Environmental
Management has decided to take
a second look at a developer's
proposal to dump salt water into
the freshwater Currituck Sound
after initially recommending ap-
proval.
"It's still up in the air said
Dale Overcash of the division's
water quality section after the
proposal was met with opposi-
tion from the state Wildlife Re-
sources Commission, the Curri-
tuck County commissioners and
residents who spoke at a stormy
public hearing last month.
The 120-square-mile soundin
northeastern North Carolina has
lured duck hunters and bass fish-
ermen to Currituck County for
decades. Fishermen alone add
about $1 million to the local econ-
omy each year. The News and
Observer of Raleigh reported.
The developers of Ocean Hill,
an upscale vacation community
north of Corolla on the the Outer
Banks, have applied for a state
permit to dump concentrated
brine from a water purification
plant into the sound's mildly
brackish waters.
They have also filed an appli-
cation for a more expensive op-
tion: discharging the brine into
the Atlantic Ocean.
James "Jimbo" Ward, one of
the five Ocean Hill partners, said
he didn't think the brine would
harm the sound.
"The county is coming from a
position of almost no research
he said, adding that some county
officials used the issue as a cam-
paign issue during the May pri-
mary election. "The developer is
the easiest person to go after
But Yates Barber of Elizabeth
City, a wildlife biologist and ad-
viser to the Albemarle Pamlico
Estuarine Study, said salinity
could destroy aquatic plants, key
elements to the life in the sound.
"It is a very shallow sound
with a lot of sandy bottom he
saidTlantsareimportantinhelp-
ing keep water clear, and clear
water helps plants and plankton
to grow. Plants are valuable food
to waterfowl, otherbirdsand fish
Barber said the system was
thrown out of balance between
1985 and 1988, when drooght
raised the salinity of the sound
and killed many of the plants.
The submerged aquatic plants
and black bass were also dam-
aged when the city of Virginia
Beach, Va pumped ocean water
into Back Bay at the north end of
the sound, he said. That pumping
has since been halted.
The Division of Environ-
mental Management will have to
decide on the sound-side permit
by July, Overcash said. The ocean
discharge applicabon is still un-
der consideration.
Flash flood warnings posted
after increased water damage
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) ?
Flash flood warnings were posted
in Hot Springs, Ark Monday af-
ter a 6-foot wall of water caved in
shop windows, carried off bridges
and swept up cars and people.
Residents had to be rescued
from their roofs after their homes
were swamped by nearly 13 inches
of rain in the 24 hours ending
Sunday morning. Several people
rescued from swamped cars were
taken to hospitals with minor in-
juries.
"A wall of water just came in
and everything was just floating
around said Bill Goodwin, who
owns a souvenir store in the resort
city. "Even the fixtures ? they
just turned over and floated
Goodwin said he watched a
floatingcompact car crash through
a window. Jerry Chambliss, who
runs an art gallery, said a woman
was washed out of a bathhouse
and down a street but grabbed a
sign at the end of the block.
"We couldn't get to her and
we told her to hang on he said.
"She was hollering and scream-
ing. Then this guy came by in a
front-end loader and just scooped
her up
"It was like the Colorado rap-
ids Chambliss said. "1 expected
a raft to come by. There were these
big waves. I've never seen any-
thing so frightening in my 42
years
A 90-year-old landmark iron
bridge in Mai vem on theOuachita
River was washed away. Eight
other bridges in the Hot Springs
area were washed out.
The National Weather Serv-
ice issued severe thunderstorm
warnings overnight for parts ?f
Oklahoma and Arkansas, includ-
ing Hot Springs. Hot Springs was
under flash flood warnings.
Elsewhere, farmers in central
Louisiana who erected levees to
hold back the bloated Red River
were warned to expect even higher
water next month.
In the southeastern Texas
town of Coldspring, Wayne Pady
and his wife, Debbie, turned their
hilltop home into a shelter, feed-
ing and housing about 20 people
forced to flee high water from Lake
Livingston.
See Floods, page 5
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Opinion
Page 4, Wednesday, May 23,1990
Budget cuts 'heat up' ECU campus
Enough isenough. It seemsKkeeveryoneon
campus is complaining about the university's divi-
sion to turn ilf the air conditioning on Fridays to
reduce energy cost. Bui isn't living without the lux-
ury of air conditioning worth protecting our educa-
tional program?
The fact of the matter is that the state oi
North Carolina put itself in a bind by trying to make
up a 1989-90 budget shortfall of over five billion
dollars in three months. And what better place to
make cuts than the UNC school system?
Now, the cuts are not affecting E V alone;
other schools in the UNC system are taking more
drastic approaches to trim the cost of operations. In
an article published in the Greensboro Hews and Rec-
er.ilast week. I'NC-C.reensboro wascutting33teach-
ing positions, while North Carolina A&T State Uni-
versity bad planned to prune 17. And if the state's
budget deficit carries into the 1990-91 fiscal year
(which appears to be the case), the university may be
forced to eliminate teaching positions.
Concern has also arisen about the cuts' pos-
sible impacts on the university's computer systems.
While the vast majority of computers on campus will
be shut down after the 1130 deadline, others will be
forced to remain on and experience the he.it, known
to wreak havocon their sensitive internal parts. But
decisions have to be made, and priorities ordered.
If the state had better planned for the 1989-90
budget, the university systems would not be suffer-
ing from these cutbacks. And since it is a North
Carolina law that our budget must be balanced gong
into the next fiscal year, it might be interesting to see
what our politicians in Raleigh plan to do. But above
all, let's hope that the academic program of ECU will
not suffer too greatly from the state's foul-up
x HOT rvRSvn of a wi&HtK education
Washington Report
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That met AHtive.
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America needs to get active
Is Bush back in the hot seat?
By Nathaniel Mead
Editorial Columnist
In the Spring of 1988, Pro-Ira-
nian Shnte Moslem kidnappers
released a videotape of American
journalist Terry Anderson, the
longest-held foreign hostage in
Lebanon, reading a message that
accused the IS government of
preventing his release. It was
Anderson's fourth year in captiv-
ity. His nearlv three-minute mes-
sage sounded heartfelt and coher-
ent enough, at least, for the Asso-
ciated Press to share its contents.
After telling friends and fam-
ily of his appreciation for their
efforts, Anderson said provoca-
tively, "I have been very close to
being released several times over
the past three vears, but each time
it seems that the U.S. government
usesits influence to stopany agree-
ment, and I don't understand this.
1 am not asking President Re-
agan to deal with terrorists, al-
though Mr. George Bush did so
in the Iran-Contra affair and TWA
hijacking Our problem as hos-
tages could have been solved a
long time ago without such com-
plications as arms deals
Anderson did not elaborate
on the accusation of Bush's ties to
Irangate;but for many Americans,
including myself, it came as no
surprise. The truth of Iranamok
has been exposed in nearly a dozen
books, including one by a biparti-
san team of senators and others by
reputable law firms. If the Senate
and judiciary system ever regains
the opportunity and backbone to
put Bush on the stand, the history
books will show that this Prez has
probably done more to undermine
the integrity of the Constitution
than any other before him.
The truth, in case you haven't
heard by now, boils down to this:
When Congress cut off CIA Contra
aid in 1984, Lt. Col. Oliver North.
under the direction of Reagan,
Bush, Meese, and Casey, reached
out to a "secret team" to illegally
recommence funding and resup-
plving the Contras. Sccord and
North orchestated the arms sales
to Iran, selling U.S. weapons at
many times their original cost and
illegally depositing the extra prof-
its into foreign bank accounts.
Some of this money was used to
illegally support the Contras in
their war on the Sandinistas.
Memos show that Bush was noti-
fied of the Iran arms-for-hostages
deal seventeen times.
Despite overwhelming evi-
dence to the contrary, including
many documents submitted to the
Tower commission, Bush has re-
peatedly denied that he wasaware
of thearms-for-hostages exchange.
And when the Iran-Contra trial was
over, Bush reacted vehemently to
reporters' questions about a quid
pro quo agreement that led to the
construction of Contra bases and
resupping of airstrips in Hondu-
ras. "There was no quid pro quo he
said. "There has been needless,
mindless speculation about my
word of honor But as discussed
in the October 16,1989 New Yorker
and elsewhere, there was a quid pro
quo agreement. Indeed, the evi-
dence suggests that Bush person-
ally delivered its conditions to
President Cordova of Honduras.
The show's not over yet,
however. Thanks to the fact that
OUie North neglected to burn his
personal notebooks-?evidently it
took all his energy to shred the
other stuff Bush is now back in
the hotseat. Excerpts from copies
of North's notebooks have re-
newed questions about whether
then Vice-President Bush was
more deeply involved in assist-
ing the Nicaraguan Contra rebels
than he has acknowledged. If
there is evidence that Bush was
directly involved, or that the dia-
ries were edited or blacked out,
the House intelligence or judici-
ary committees may conduct
another investigation, according
to Rep. Lee Hamilton, who led
the Iran-Contra inquiry.
Whatever the outcome.
Bush's ongoing denial and asser-
tions that he didn't know about
the Iran-Contra mess are prepos-
terous. Moreover, was it "mind-
less" (using Bush's term) to in-
vestigate the possibility of a Presi-
dential candidate subverting the
will of the Constitution, the Con-
gress, and the American people?
And given Bush's vacuous rheto-
ric on tax and environmental is-
sues, is his word of honor really
worth anything at all? Not if
you're educated enough to know
what the word means. But per-
haps an even more poignant
question is why the Tower com-
mission let Bush off the hook in
the first place.
By Nathaniel Mead
Editorial Columnist
On June 17, 1982, I joined a
million souls in New York City's
Central Park to protest against
nuclear weaponry and racist geno-
cide. By that time many Ameri-
cans were getting downright in-
dignant about the Reagan
administration's 'voodoo arms
control We could not stand by
quietlv as the old actor slashed
rapid growth oi the military sec-
tor, even as the nation had enough
nukes to destroy the world forty
times over, seemed like sheer
lunacy.
Bv all appearances, the rally
was a great success. People ar-
rived in cars, trains, and buses
from all over the U.S. to make
themselves heard. Expecting
trouble. New York's finest were
out in full regalia that day. But
instead of violence, hundreds of
policemen were adorned with
flowers. We sang and reveled in
the music of lames Taylor. Joni
Mitchell, and other tine musicians.
There was an infectious camara-
derie reminiscent of the early-
marches forcivilnghtsand against
the Vietnam War. (Actually, I'm
too voung to have known the spirit
of those days, except vicariously.)
Though Reagan failed to re-
spond in any constructive man-
ner, the sheer sie of the Central
Park protest suggested that the
"me generation" was not a lost
cause. In mv euphoric naivete, I
believed that major changes were
in order for the nation and that
world peace was no longer a mere
pipedream. Even when Reagan
later publicly condemned the
nuclear freeze movement almost
in the same breath denouncing his
Evil Empire?1 remember think-
ing that he would soon go the way
of Nixon, ousted from office with
nary a whimper.
Of course, these were all fool-
ish notions, especially my imagi-
nary comparisons with the late
'60s, when the country was caught
in a climate of intense hostility
and division over U.S. foreign
policv in Vietnam. Like many
students today, I had little aware-
ness of the emotionally charged
atmosphere of divided families
and polarized nation during
Nixon's reign. I was only vaguely
familiar with the bitter repression
mounted by the U.S. government
against the popular anti-war
movement, which reached its
zenith in 1970 with the Kent State
student killings.
But on that day in Central Park
r hV r
about military escalation, and we
wanted the government to do
something about it. It seemed
enough that so many people
would turn out for an event. On
the other hand, this largest rally of
the decade seemed to accomplish
little, roday I wonder if such
events may not even feed into a
collective apathy by giving peopie
little more than an emotional re-
lease, a way to break the cycle of
frustration over an incompetent
government.
But the prevailing apathy
cannot last much longer, for our
society has moved toward increas-
ing chaos. Each year the gap be-
tween rich and poor grows ever
wider. Drugs and crime are more
rampant than ever. Our social
programs and school systems are
still pitifully regressive. Our mili-
tary still supports foreign policies
based on stealth and treachery in
El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama
and elsewhere. Clearly the Reagan
era isn' t over vet, and many people
are still readingGeorge Bush's lips
even as he cuts fat business deals
with China and tacitly exonerates
Deng for mass murder.
Why hasn't Bush's Re-
aganesque administration
aroused more dissent and demon-
strations by younger people? Why
do surveys show him with such a
high public approval rating? Evi-
dently Reagan's feel-good ap-
proach ("don't worry, be happy")
and glossy promises of material
prosperity have sunk deep into
the collective unconscious of
America. Also, many of us are
being overtaken by a sense oi dis-
illusionment, a desire to "tuneout"
from the world?and make our-
selves powerless. Perhaps, too,
we're conditioned into passivity
by reading magazines and watch-
ing TV instead of actually doing
anything.
The pervasive pessimism in
our culture is particularly under-
standable when we consider the
bewildering assault of social and
environmental problems we must
trv to sort out And many of our
technologies, while representing
-r
processors, digital watches, etc.)
have become the means through
which those in power manipulate
change in our society. Computers
for example, are allowing greater
management control over the
work force?a level of control that
could getoutof hand. Weare going
to have to start setting moral codes
for computer usage?and not
simplv focusingon those renegade
hackers.
Some technologies offer pat-
terns of control that should be
outright rejected. Take nuclear
power, which is intractably struc-
tured around the idea of the au-
thoritarian state. The potentials
hazardsof radioactivity and waste
make strict security measures a
necessity around nuclear power
plants. Or take the recent innova-
tions in "artificial intelligence
which isheavily grounded in mili-
tary research and development
This would allow any repressive
governnment to monitor tele-
phone lines for suspicious con-
versations. Opposition is the onlv
sane public responsein thesecases.
Perhaps we put too much faith
in the power of education and not
enough in the power of change
itself. Of course, all action should
be guided bv clear vision and
sound reasoning, but vision is
worthless without action. The
moral and political questions we
continually raise will be nothing
other than vainglory reflections if
we fail to translate them into suc-
cessful action. It's going to take a
lot more than letter-writing cam-
paigns to end the "Age of Greed"
and make this world a better place
to live.
To the Editor
Student
responds
to 'attack'
To the editor.
This letter is i n response to the
unsolicited, and unsigned attack
against the students who reside in
Scott Residence Hall.
In an article published in the
Attitudes (Bad Attitudes) section
of The East Carolinian on Tuesday,
April 24, 1990, an anonymous
writer exposed several of Scott's
residents as being bullish for
wanting to get what they had paid
for; air-conditioned rooms.
The writer of the article was
condemning the residents for
demanding either that the air-
conditioning system be turned on
or a refund of the money ($80 extra
per person) paid for an air-condi-
tioned room be given. 1 don't
blame the students who felt this
way one bit.
I live in Scott, and I think that
students should not have things
"stolen" from them that they have
paid for. Note that there was never
any mention of a cut-back in the
air-conditioning in our housing
contracts.
We were informed of this
practice only after we had paid
the extra money for the air condi-
tioned rooms. I feel that this is a
pretty under-handed trick on the
part of ECU officials.
I wonder how the anonymous
writer of the article would feel if
he was cheated by someone in
some situation such as this.
I also wonder if this writer
works for the housing department.
If so, it figures since the housing
department, as well as many other
departments on this campus,
throw red tape all over you as
soon as you walk into the front
door.
If the writer of this article ever
has any further opinions, I hope
he leams how to sign his name to
them. Thank you!
Ronald Mercer
Freshman
Chemistry
Speeder
nearly hits
pedestrian
To the editor:
It seems that every single day
I walk through campus, some-
one comes by in a car that is clearly
going faster than the posted 15
m.p.h. speed limit.
As I was walking across the
road in front of the General Class-
room Building last week, some-
one came speeding up, and if it
weren't for his breaks, almost hit
me.
Now I know that Public
Safety cannot always be there
when someone breaks the law,
but if something is not done soon,
someone is going to get hurt.
It's common sense that driv-
ers should not speed in a school
zone or where there are a lot of
people, so why do it on campus?
John Smith
Senior
Industrial Technology
?s
LTheEast Carol
inian, May 23.1990
N.C. judges say Willie M project proves beneficial
HAM (AP) ? Many Theveet the idea that. Tma Wil- was killed bv a shoteun blast while lie M Droerams in Raleieh. said atipmnt to alter the children's and hurt them You can't to
DURHAM (AP) - Many
fudges in North Carolina say that
wh.le the Willie M program is
beneficial for assaultive, violent
youths, it should not keep them
from being held accountable for
any crimes they commit.
"They ought to be prosecuted
)ust like any other child would
be said Durham District Court
ludge William Manson. "Not
holding them responsible is the
worst thing you can do. They're
not stupid. Some are very smart.
They get the idea that, 'I'm a Wil-
lie M and therefore 1 can do any-
thing I want
Debate heated up in legal
circles after the Durham Morning
Herald revealed last week that
Mohammed Jomal Thompson,
who is awaiting trial in the slaying
and robbery of a Roxboro woman,
was in a Willie M group home
shortly before the crimes were
committed.
Thompson is charged in the
death of Sherri Lynn King, who
was killed by a shotgun blast while
working as a clerk at a Roxboro
convenience store in February.
Butaccordingtoa 1985 memo-
randum outlining the program's
philosophy, prosecution of crimi-
nal charges filed against program
participants should be avoided.
And, the memo says, every effort
should be made to keep Willie M
children out of training schools ?
the modern name for what used to
be known as reformatories.
Laura Winslow, chief of Wil-
lie M programs in Raleigh, said
the basic tenets of the memo re-
main in effect.
The state spends $33 million a
year on the program. As of March
30, there were 1,066 youths classi-
fied as "Willie M" children.
Youths through age 18 can be
certified as Willie M as a result of
assaultive, violent behavior. Ex-
tensive psychological testing is
done before certification. After
certification, intensive individual
and group therapy is offered in an
attempt to alter the children's
behavior.
Some Willie M children live
with their parents during treat-
ment while others live in group
homes.
While Manson and other
judges agree that treatment is
essential for Willie M children,
they also feel the children must be
held accountable for their actions.
"The Willie M certification is
a pass to treatment Manson said.
"It'snot to be mean to other people
and hurt them. You can't tell me
not to hold them responsible
Durham's Chief District
judge, Kenneth C. Titus, agreed.
The Willie M certification
"doesn't mean you insulate chil-
dren from the consequences of
their actions. You shouldn't turn
the other way and ignore these
actions Titus said. "For anyone
to believe you're not responsible
for your actions is a failure of our
system
Tire dumps have become dangerous
PRINCETON, N.C. (AP) ?
Waste management officials call
them "nuisance cites but tire
dumps are more than an aggrava-
tion thev'redangerous.saystatc
and local authorities.
Six to nine million tires are
taken off cars in North Carolina
every year, officials estimate.
In a measure to find some-
thing to do with them, state legis-
lators last year included a section
on tire disposal in a law designed
to Improve the management of
solid waste in general.
It's the first regulation in the
state to deal specifically with old
tires since the invention of the
automobile.
There are tire dumps across
the state, said Dee Eggers of the
Solid Waste Management section
of the state Division of Environ-
mental Management.
"I think the division knows
about more nuisance sites than it
could possibly ever handle, and I
also think there are more sites that
we don't even know about she
said.
In trying to decide how to
handle the problem, proposed
regulations for cleaning up dump
sites are being considered by the
division at a public hearing Mon-
day at 9 a.m. in Raleigh.
Under the regulations, which
would go into effect July 1, dumps
would have to be cleaned up
within 90 davs of the time they
were declared a nuisance. The
owner of the dump would be li-
able for cleanup costs, and the
division could levy a $50-a-tire
fine for failure to clean up a dump.
Tires also present a problem
for counties. Under a law that went
into effect March 1, counties have
been authorized to charge a han-
dling fee to anyone bringing tires
to them for disposal.
In large numbers, tires can
become a breeding ground for
mosquitoesand vermin. If the pile
ca tches f i re, noxious chemicals are
sent into the air and onto the
ground. And when taken to a
landfill, where they take up a lot
of space, they refuse to stay buried
because they trap air and work
their way back to the top.
On March 1, it became illegal
to bury whole tires in a sanitary
landfill. Counties were told they
would have to find an alternative
method of disposing of the tires.
The new law has been a boon
to some businesses.
Since the law went into effect.
the shredding machine at U.S. Tire
Disposal in Concord has been
running 10 to 12 hours a day,
business manager David W. Bailey
told TheRaleigh Newsand Observer.
On its 97 acres in Cabarrus
County, U.S. Tircoperatestheonly
licensed tire landfill ? called a
monofill ? in the state. There
workers bury the 6,000 to 10,000
used tires chewed up daily.
Most of the tires come from
the 34 counties that contract with
thecompany, which parksits trac-
tor-trailers at their landfills and
collects the castoffs for 50 cents
each, compared to the $7.50 a tire
some companies charge in the
Northeast. After the tires are run
through the shredder, the four-
by-four-inch pieces are buried in
cells that could be easily re-opened
later for recycling.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ?
Religious conventions are gear-
ing up, starting in Charlotte on
Tuesday when more than 600
people begin gathering for the
Western North Carolina Confer-
ence of the AMF Church.
It will continue on a much
larger scale when the General
Assembly ol the rresbvterian
Church opens in Salt Like City
1?v ?(imi 4he tHMithern Baptist
Convention takes over the Super-
dome in New Orleans une 12.
In between, Bishop L. Bevel
Jones 111 ot the Western North
Carolina Conference of the United
Methodist Church will announce
clergv appointments across the44-
county conference during its June
b-10 meeting at Like Junaluska.
The Carolinas' 243,000 Pres-
byterians will have a special stake
in the election of the moderator of
their denomination's 202nd Gen-
eral Assembly Charlottebusiness-
man TriceCwynn III isamongsix
candidates for the top post in the 3
mi 11 urn-member Prcsbvterian
Church (U.S.A.). ?
Several thousand people are
expected to attend the General
Assembly, which runs through
une 6 at the Salt Palace.
Crowd estimates for the an-
nual meeting of the Southern
Floods
Baptist Convention range from
35,000 to 60,(XX). The record is
45,000, set in Dallas in 1985.
Southern Baptists add the
fervor of yet another presidential
campaign waged by fundamen-
talists and moderates in the 14.8
million-member denomination.
The Rev. Morris Chapman of
Wichita Falls, Tex is trying to
extend the fundamentalists' 11-
year string of victories by oppos-
ing the ordination of women and
narrowing the focus of seminary
studies.
The Rev. Daniel Vestal of At-
lanta is the moderates' choice to
restore inclusive leadership that
Continued from page 3
allows women in ministry and
divorced people in the mission
field.
With nearly 2 million resident
Southern Baptists, the Carolinas
will plav an important role in the
election. Individual churches may
send up to 10 messengers, as dele-
gates are called. Each messenger
has the right to vote.
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"I had just purchased a house
(in top of a hill, so we just had
everyone down there come up
here Pady said. The 39-year-old
isdisabled by back problems from
a 1983 car accident, and his only
income is Social Security.
"Every bod v helpsoneanother
down here said Charlie Bell
Wright, 60, whose husband and
daughter were staying with the
Padys. "They try to share what
they've got. You don't find many
people like this in other places
Flooding in the region along
the Arkansas, Trinity and Red
rivers has caused hundreds of
millions of dollars in losses and
Easley
killed 13 people in the past three
weeks in Texas, Arkansas, Okla-
homa and Louisiana.
Floods cased in Missouri,
Kansas, Illinois and Indiana. At
least two people died in Illinois
and authorities searched for a
woman missing in a flood in Jef-
ferson City, Mo since Thursday.
Continued from page 3
own health insurance bill, said
Susan jetton, a spokeswoman for
Cantt.
Easlev said in a telephone
interview Saturday that he met
with Ingram recently in Calabash
but did not ask for his endorse-
ment
"1 was not looking for a public
endorsement I asley said. "What
I wanted was to find out how to
get through to his supporters. 1
asked him if he had any lists we
could use for calling and 1 asked if
he had anything to use for mail-
ing
But Ingram told him he had
no lists and said his campaign
relied strictly on public appear-
ances, Fasley said. He said Ingram
offered to campaign on his behalf
for $10,000 a month to cover his
Drugs
expenses, "and not only for the
runoff but on through to Novem-
ber, and that just didn't hit me
right
Asked by The News and Ob-
server of Raleigh on Friday if he
had requested $10,000 a month in
compensation from the Easley
campaign, Ingram, a Cary attor-
ney, replied: "I get $100 an hour,
so you figure it up
Continued from page 3
Willoughby said. "It would be
great to be able to be tough on
everything all the time, but you
can only be as tough as the re-
sources will allow. It's really sort
of sad because we need to keep the
pressure on the drug user
Defense lawyers and some
prosecutors complain that first-
time offenders, under the new law,
do not have the option to plea
bargain to misdemeanor posses-
sion and thereby avoid a perma-
nent felony record.
Eugene Dunn Jr a Raleigh
service station owner, agrees. He
is one person who was convicted
for possession of a small amount
of cocaine.
On Oct. 27, Raleigh detectives
showed up at his Texaco station
bearing a search warrai.t.
An informant had told them
that one of Dunn's employees, a
former convict, had been selling
cocaine and that the drugs could
be found hidden throughout the
shop. But thedetec rives foundonly
three-tenths of a gram of cocaine
hidden inside a pack of rolling
papers tucked under the station's
cash register.
Dunn, who was charged with
possession of cocaine as owner of
the shop, testified at his trial that
he knew nothing about it. In an
interview last week, he said he
had hoped to run for the Raleigh
City Council one day, but now, as
a felon, he can't even vote.
"I've been a victim of the sys-
tem he said. "It's costing me
customers, my name is gone, and
everything I've worked hard for is
gone
Dunn received a three-year
suspended sentence, probation for
five years and a $1,000 fine, and he
must submit to warrantless
searches and urine tests for the
duration of his probation. His
sentence is typical of those others
have received.
Dunn's only previous viola-
tions were several traffic offenses.
MikeDodd,a Raleigh defense
attorney, said the law should
provide first-time offenders the
chance to pay for their crimes
without being branded felons.
"Our system has always been
tailored to sentence people based
on what they've done and a vari-
ety of factors including their edu-
cation, background and experi-
ence he said. "This just simply
removes all of that arbitrarily and
says these thingsare of no value. It
makes no sense
District attorneys have the
option of prosecuting cocaine
possession as a felon or reducing
it to a misdemeanor charge, such
as possession of drug parapher-
nalia.
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Features
May 23,19
Manager moves forward
Attic adapts to administration changes
By Jeff Chester
Special to The East Carolinian
For the past 18 years, Tom
Haines has been the owner and
manager of North Carolina's old-
est live entertainment night club
under the same name and man-
agement
As he finalizes this portion of
his career in Greenville, Haines
recalls the Attic's good and bad
times, its stability and its growth,
and he discusses the highlights of
Attic historv.
Q. 1 low did you first become
involved with the Attic?
A. 1 was in the army, sta-
tioned in Vietnam in 1969. I re-
ceived an "early out" by going
back to school.
1 already had a marketing
degree trom Gannon University
in Fne, Pa. So, I decided tocomc to
ECU to obtain a second degree in
commercial art After a few se-
mesters they tripled the tuition for
out of state students.
Being from Endicott NY. put
me in a bad financial situation. I
couldn't work while on the G.I.
bill. I was told if 1 worked for six
months I could become a N.C.
resident.
I heard about a nightclub
called the Id that went out of busi-
ness in the summer of 1971. Two
weeks later, tearing out and re-
building was in full swing and the
Attic opened its doors for busi-
ness on Sept. 7, 1971.
Q. To what do von attribute
the long time success of the Attic?
A. There are a number of
reasons, but two stand out. First:
manv people, including some in
the industry, perceive the night-
club business to be mostlv fun and
games; in reality its mostly hard
work and 14 hour days.
The second reason is variety
in entertainment. From ij one.
Tom Haines. Attic coordinator for 18 years is expanding his career to
work with the 68 Comedy Zones in the southeastern United States
the Attic has offered the most
diverse entertainment line up in
the state. The Palomino Club in
Charlotte is the only other club in
N .C. currently offering as diverse
an entertainment menu. In fact
I'm willing to bet there's not an-
other club in the south that has
offered Rock 'n' Roll (our main-
stay), Beach, Heavy Metal, Blue
Grass, Punk, Oldies, Christian,
Reggae, Rhythm n Blues, Speed
Metal, azz,Glitter Rock, Pop, New
Wave, Folk, CountrySouthern
Rock and of course Comedy.
Q. What is the most memo-
rable night in the past 18 years?
A. That's an easy question to
answer. On Jan. 27, 1981 The
Pointer Sisters performed in con-
cert for an NBC music seriescalled
(The Blue Jean Networks When
they performed they had the 2
song on Billboard's charts, and
when the show aired in Septem-
ber of 1981 they had another 2
hit. The shov. was awesome and it
wasaired worldwideover the next
year. In fact, it was aired again last
year on the A&E network.
Q. What night would you
most like to forget ? not counting
the night in 184 when the Attic
burned down?(note: The Attic was
located at 209 E. 5th Street from
September 1971 to January 1976.
Then it moved to 103 E. 4th Street
until the fire in September of 184
when it moved Kick into its origi-
nal location.)
A. Not counting the fire, I'd
have to say any night with a no
show. Truck breakdowns, singers
with laryngitis, bands mistakenly
See Attic, page 7
What a dog eat dog day!
Taking advantage of this sunny day, Jeff Blosh and h.s dog Boob enjoy the luxuries of the town commons
To beat the heat, Boob cools off in the Tar River (Photo by JD. Whitmire ? ECU Photo Lab)
Earth Day leaves changed lives
Hemingway landmark attracts
tourists and revives memories
MORTON BAY, Mich. (AP)
The Hemingway cottage on
Walloon Lake is unmarked. Lo-
cals say Frnest Hemingway's
younger sister. Sunny, took down
the historical plaque that pointed
out Windemere, the summer home
where Frnest played, fished and
took his bride.
Sunnv still spends her sum-
mers here.
Sunnv,Mrs MadelaineMiller,
3, also asked the Petoskey Cham-
ber of Commerce to stop giving
directions to the low. white house
among the cedars Hemingway
fanatics on their summer pilgrim-
ages find it anvway.
They don't know what
they're looking for says Melissa
Creasev. With her mother she
manages the 1 14-year-old Norton
ly (.eneral Store four miles from
Windemere.
Creasev sells pizzas and T-
slwts to the pilgrims and answers
Coming up
Wednesday
FIZZ
The Comedy Zone
Thursday
FIZZ
Spotlight Night
NEW DELI
Cream of Soul
Friday
FIZZ
Mark Johnson and
Frinz
ATTIC
NRG
Saturday
ATTIC
Sidewinder
their questions. "They ask. Is this
the place?
It is. Hemingway described
the false-front store with its wide
porch in "Up in Michigan a scan-
dalous story about the rape of a
Horton Bay woman. It was one of
his earliest published stories.
But that isn't what the fans
want to know.
They want whatever it was
here that flamed the son of an Oak
Park, III doctor into the burning
bright writer who crystalized the
ripple of a trout stream or the
seduction of an Indian girl.
"They want to know why it
influenced Hemingway says Bill
Ohle, 79, a retired ad man from
Chicago whose grandfather con-
structed many of the buildings
around Horton Bay.
Ohle lives down the lane from
the store, in his father's hilltop
cabin overlooking Lake Char-
levoix. There'sa la nd sea pe painted
bv Hemingway's mother hanging
over the fireplace.
The pilgrims want something
larger than life, some sign of the
emerging greatness, Ohle says.
What they find are stories about a
boy nobody much noticed.
Ohle was a scrawny-legged
kid while teen-age Ernest Hem-
ingway freeloaded chicken din-
ners at Liz Dilworth's boarding
house across the street and cast for
trout on the bav at the bottom of
the hill.
He remembers Ernest fishing,
Ernest courting cousin Marjorie
Bump, 22-year-old Emest bring-
ing his St. Louis fiancee Hadley
Richardson to Horton Bay to get
married in 1921 in a church since
torn down. He remembers Ernest
and his bride leaving a few weeks
later and never coming back.
"Half a dozen of his better
short stories are about this here
See Hemingway, page 8
By Stuart Oliphant
Staff Writer
Emptying the garbage has
never been one of mv favorite
chores. The task, however, is quite
simple: Gather all disposable
items, put them in a sack and toss
it into the closest dumpster. You
never reallv stop to think what
other people consider to be gar-
bage, until you reach your neigh-
borhood refuse bin.
Finally, I get motivated. Heft-
ing my kitchen trash container,
while balancing two paper sacks
filled tocapacitvon thecontainers
lid, I ease the front door open and
make my way across the parking
lot. Upon reaching the dumpster,
I stand and gaze into its depths,
noticing the debris of my fellow
residents.
Coat hangers, clothing, stuffed
animals, even old plastic trash
containers inhabit the bowels of
the dumpster. Enthralled by the
rubbish of my neighbors, I ponder
a salvage mission. I guess it was
the irony of seeing a trash con-
tainer in a dumpster that made me
realize that people don't really
think about what they throwawav.
It made me want to retrieve my
contribution to the realm of trash,
investigate the contents, and try
to determine if I am as guilty as
mv neighbors.
Eventually, I become bored
with poking through mounds of
residue and start on my journey
back to the apartment. I catch an
inquisitive glance from a neigh-
bor, cunousas to mv actions at the
local trash bin. Fie probably thinks,
"What is this idiot up to, poking
through our garbage, what nerve"
Finally my task is complete.
The garbage is emptied, and all
that's left to do is relax on the
couch and vegitate. 1 turn on the
tube, flip through thechannelsand
decide on watching a network
news documentary.
"Whoah! I do a double take,
but still my bewilderment will not
cease. The topic for discussion is
garbage.
The show placed the rr
emphasison plastic debris I lasbc
is trulv a remarkable substance
it's durable, fairly cheap I . -
duce in quantity, and serves a
variety of needs The only prob-
lem with plastic is that the stuff
just will not go away.
To combat the bad imagi
plastic, garbage bag manufactur-
ers have come up with a uni
approach, biodegradable plasl
This invention pleased the envi-
ronmentallv conscious, until it was
learned that there was not as: .
shred of evidence that the st
would degrade any faster thar
plain plastic In a landfillsituat
all debns takes longer to decom-
pose. The only proof that the
manufacturer cave was pi
"biodgradable" on the packagi
Mv bewilderment was in-
creasing. 1 mean, how can a a '
panv get away with that. Ev:
had bought this product, think- :
that bv using it I wascontribul g
to the betterment of society. Then
See Earth Day, page 7
Sparrow becomes acting
dean of English department
ECU News Bureau
Dr. W. Keats Sparrow, profes-
sor and chair of the Department of
English, will become acting dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences
at ECU effective July 1.
Sparrow, a native of Kinston
and member of the English fac-
ulty since 1965, will serve while a
national search is conducted for a
successor to Dr. Eugene E. Ryan,
newly-appointed director of the
Center for International Studies.
Ryan has been dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences since 1983.
From 1979 through 1983,
Sparrow served as special assis-
tant to the Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs. From 1983
through 1987 he was co-director
oi the master's program in techni-
cal and professional communica-
tion and he served as acting chair
of the department of English be-
fore becoming chairman last year.
Dr. Marlene Springer, vice
chancellor for academic affairs,
said Dr. Scott Snyder, chairman of
the geology department, would
serve as acting associate dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences.
She said "it would be appropriate
at this time to have an acting
associate dean and that Sparroi
and Snyder would begin immedi-
ately working closely with Rvan
to ensure a smooth transition
Snyder, a native of Canton.
Ohio, has been with the geology
department faculty since lg2
The College of Arts and Sci-
ences is the largest singleacademic
unit at ECU with 21 departments
in the humanities, natural sciences,
social sciences and math. Of the
university's academic depart-
ments, the English department is
the largest in terms of faculty and
majors.
An ideal view:
Extensive research shows joy resembles soda-pop
By Caroline Cusick
Features Editor
I sometimes think that when I
was young ? no, when I was
younger, I enjoyed life more than
I do now. But when I am well
rested (or sufficiently rested), I
realize that the opposite isequallv
or more true.
I have a lot of fun in life. De-
spite stereotypes that I am often
placet! under regarding my radi-
cal faith, I love to have fun. Joy is
mv strength. Some days, silent,
peaceful joy is my only strength
(especially after a night of produc-
tion for this Magnificent Fabulous
Journalistic Masterpiece of a
Newspaper).
Thinking back to my child-
hood days I have a hard time
remembering tremendous stress.
Yeah, my little brother got on my
nerves some days. He followed
me from place to place, repeated
what I said and mimicked my
every move. That's cute, but it
gets old fast.
My mom made me clean my
room, pick up my toys, and make
my bed. She even made me wash
dishes and put away the grocer-
ies. Quite a tyrant wasn't she.
At the time, I told her,
"Mommy, you make me work SO
hard We both laugh pretty hard
over that complaint when we
compare it to how much I work in
college. Laughter makes things
seem easier. Laughter works as a
great medicine, and it has no side
effects.
My dad ? well, he was dad.
Though he was firm and respon-
sible for much of the discipline in
my family, he always had a corny
joke or a silly face to make me
laugh. Those expressions always
seemed tremendously hysterical
when made in grocery stores ?
probably because of the frustra-
tion our roaring laughter brought
my mother. Fortunately, she's a
good sport.
There is a lot in my life that's
fortunate. I realize that. From an
outside look, my surroundings
were sufficient for producing the
joy of childhood.
My lifestyle helped then, as it
does now. I've never had to work
beyond my strength. The late
nights I've spent at East Carolin-
ian have brought me close to col-
lapse many times. Nevertheless,
I'm alive and well.
I have never worried about
having clothes to wear or food to
eat. I've never lacked these neces-
sities. I've always had a warm
place to live. I have lived in safety.
Ha vi ng t hese necessi tics read -
ily available have reduced the
anxiety in my life. But in them-
selves, they have never produced
joy in my heart.
Joy can not be produced
within the human body. It must
be placed there from an outside
force. The source of my childhood
Kry runs deeper than my circum-
stance or situation. The joy of the
Lord Jesus is the source of my joy.
It flows like an unstoppable, rag-
ing river that saturates everything
in its path. The artesian well from
which that joy springs will never
nmdry.
That's pretty complicated isn't
it? No. It's not. Joy is a simple
substance. Babies understand it.
You can see it on their faces. The
innocent smiles reflecting the
purity in their hearts is that same
joy. Joy is not meant to be compli-
cated.
Complicating joy is like wa-
tering down soda-pop. It just be-
comes yuckie. You want to spit it
out; swallowing is torture and is a
last resort. For joy to remain joy, it
must be appreciated and experi-
enced in it's original form and
simplicity. To over-analyze, ex-
plain or water down diminishes
its flavor.
How does the joy in your life
taste? Is it sweet? Or does it have
little flavor' Does your joy tickle
your heart like soda-pop tickles
your tongue? Or does it quench
your thirst and earn- you from
day to day'
Now ask yourself one more
question. Where does your joy
come from? How does it get in-
side you? And how strong is its
current?
If your joy isn't full and over-
whelming, you need to go to the
mouth of the river (if you have a
river of joy) and talk to the Man in
charge of the floodgates.
The East Carolinian, May 23,1990 7
Music Notes
All-star Raleigh musicians
form Gardners of Soule
It you've been keeping up with the latest bands from the
Raleigh music scene, then you know the lastest creation has
plenty ot rock-n-roll soul. That's right, I'm talking about
Gardners of Soule, an original rock outfit that has some
pretty impressive music, along with an all-star line up. The
band features guitarists Michael Gardner (forrnerly of PKM)
and Audlev Freed (formerly ot The Point), drummer Kenny
Soule (formerly of Nan tucket), Robert Reams (formerly of
Sidewinder) and vocalist Phillip Gardner. Gardners of
Soule made their live debut at the Attic a couple weeks ago.
You can catch them at The Brewerv in Raleigh on June 8.
Speaking of our capitol's music scene, Corrosion of Con-
formity will be making their way back I rom a six-week tour
in Europe with thrash act Dirty Rotten Imbecils. If all goes
as planned, COC will be playing at the Mad Monk in
Wilmington on June 23.
Kurupsure, a thrash quartet from Goldsboro, has been
rattling a lew heads at the .Attic lately It seems a couple
weeks ago the band tilled in tor Centerfold, a commercial
metal band, after they canceled a show at the downtown
club. Obviously, the Centerfold audience wasn't aware of
the cancellation and got more than a despot' thrash in their
faces. Currently, Kurupsure has a new three-song demo
that features fast and crunchv tunes like Ravages of War
and The Damned
be sure to mark your calendars for the Second
International Rock -Awards that will be airing on
hine 6.
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Bits and Pieces
Dick Tracy opens a new
market for Disney studios
Dick it.H could be the next "Batman. Walt Disney Studios brings
thei ? me fighter to the screen unc 15. Already shirts, mugs
and bt ? rtsareout Next month brings four styles of Dick fracy
watches, i r.i. : ke) chains, toy cars and crime-stopper kits. lomaintain
k look rracy merchandise will appear in just four primary
i k .md white.
Big business takes root in Budapest
la pest is last becoming the capital o( I S. businesses in Eastern
Europe I Respite a load ofeconomic troubles, I lungary's business scene
and lit ire vibrant as its people quickly latch onto capitalism Best
measur ketine membership of the American Chamber of Com-
merce ;ar rhirty companies signed up as charter memberson
oveinl ? o over liX) are on the list.
Home video shows branch out
through local programs for fall TV
!H s nerica s Funniest I lome ideos the srruish that has al-
read) spavv ned clones for national T next fall, now has local stations
doing their own spinoffs. In Denver, a TV station otters $5,000 tor the
host ideo in its "Colorado's Funniest Home Videos" special. In Wash-
ington, P (. and in New York City, home videos are sneaking into
newscasts and blooper segments.
SAT slants reading passage segment
Students can score well on the reading section ot the Scholastic
Aptitude rest without having the passages, reports a University ot
(ieorgia study. Students given tost questions w ith no reading passages
averaged about 4c percent correct answers; those with reading pas-
sages scored about 69 percent I he Study says it proves the SA I
measures certain skills rather than reading comprehension.
Celebrities continue to help the Earth
Celebrities did their thing lor Earth Day this weekend. Kevin Bacon
and Kyra Sedgwkk displayed cloth-diaper-dad son Travis. The couple
shunsdisposables,evenon the road (Hi ia Newton-John said she plans
to ditch her Mercedes tor a car that guzzles less gas. And Tom Cruise
UHk time to distribute a booklet on en ironmental activism on the set
ot his now movie, "Davs ot Thunder
Relaxation reduces heart attack risks
Heart attack survivors in their 50s who curtail "Type A" behavior
have a greater chance ol being alive eight years later. A study out this
weekend b a Stanford I niversit researcher finds even when their
physical condition alter a heart attack is similar, people who relax are
50 percent more likely to survive. Behavior modification led to 25
percent fewer heart attack recurrences.
Magazine survey reports New York
City to be the most costly in travel
A one-day visit to New Yorkity - including a night in a hotel, car
rental and three meals - costs$31 V says orporateTravel magazine
in its May issue I he Big Apple is almost double the national average
of $159, based on the magazine's surve ol business travel costs in HX
cities.
Price discounts to be offered on drugs
The world's largest pharmaceutical company has offered price dis-
counts to state Medicaid programs for the poor. The action by Merck
and Company could save the government millions of dollars. Merck
presented its plan to Medicaid officials in 20 states and Congressional
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Attic
Continued from page 6
arriving in Greenville, SC. look-
ing for the Attic, or any one of 3000
other reasons bands never make it
to the stage. Luckily, there were
relatively few for us.
Q. What has been the biggest
struggle for the Attic?
A. The struggle to make a
particular date work. Everything
needs to click. Attendance can be
affected by the weather, the econ-
omy, the competitors, the day of
the week, changes in the bands
line-up, etc. etc. etc. You have to
adjust to long term things like
changes in the drinking age, but
you also need to be concerned
about the immediate, like pre-
announced road blockson weather
reports calling for ice or snow. I've
lost trackof how many times we've
said the expression, "Boy if it's not
one thing it's another
Q. What has been the most
rewarding aspect of running the
Attic for the past 1812 years?
A. That's another easy one to
answer. It's an incredible feeling
to know that we've been respon-
sible for hundreds of thousands of
people'sgood times. We'vealmost
hit the two million marks in atten-
dance.
Q. What has been the most
frustrating aspect?
A. It has been very frustrat-
ing being labeled a heavy metal
clubby people. All they have todo
is read the Attic calendar and look
for their favorite kind of music.
It's also frustrating to talk to so
many people who haven't come
because they are not members.
Anyone with $1 to $3 (sometimes
free) and forty five seconds of free
time can be a member.
Q. What are some concerts
that almost happened, but didn't.
A. Here's eight almost with
eight different reasons for not
happening. Bruce Springsteen
because nobody knew who he was
and I couldn't afford to take a
chance on a $3 cover charge. The
Talking Heads because their tour
was changed at the last minute.
Heart because we couldn't con-
firm our backers to produce our
follow-up video of the Pointer
Sisters. Richard Marx because 1
was too stupid to see his potential.
The Pretenders because routing
never clicked into place. The Band
because one of the members died
two days before the concert. Huey
Lewis because I wasout bid on the
second attempt after his agent
postponed our first date and Pink
Floyd because I woke up in the
middle of the night and discov-
ered 1 was dreaming.
Q. What effect did the ad-
vent of the Comedy Zone have on
the Attic?
A. It had a two-fold broaden-
ing effect. First, it broadened the
entertainment base on the Attics
schedule of events. Secondly, it
broadened the customer base.
Each different type of music
brings out a defined customer
profile. But comedy has no de-
fined boundaries because every-
one likes to laugh.
Q? Name some of the high-
lights of the past 18 years?
A. I'll keep it short with the
first few that come to mind ? the
Attics hosting of the Rene Pierre
Football Championshipduring the
late '70s with contestants coming
in from fivestates,beingpresented
with a gold album by Harvey
Dalton Arnold of the Outlaws in
1980, Howard Hessman hosting
the Miss Attic Contest in 1982,
and the Pointer Sisters concert for
NBC in 1981.
Q. What are you going to
miss most about the Attic?
A. The people. My managers
and employees who gave me very
littlegriefbuttonsof good memo-
ries and dedicated service. I'd love
to mentionabouta hundred names
but instead I'd just like to make a
collective public thank you. I'll
also miss all the customers and all
the thousandsof talented perform-
ers that I've had the privilege of
working with over the past two
decades.
Earth Day
Continued from page 6
it came to me ? advertising.
With the increasing concern
for the environment, a new mar-
ket has appeared. In order for the
manufacturer to reach this market
they created the concept of biode-
gradable plastic, jacking up the
price in the process. Well, that's
big business, anything for a buck.
After viewing this gripping
expose, I made a resolution to at
least make some effort towards
recycling. The first step in my
confused process was to give up
plastic trash bags. This was easy,
being that I receive paper bags
every time I go to the supermar-
ket. The next step was harder,
organization. When you recycle,
all items have to be separated:
newspapers in one pile, aluminum
cans in another (the Earth Day's
Result biggest pile by far), clear
glass and colored glass in separate
heaps, and cardboard. After or-
ganizing my trash I found that the
items actually placed in the trash
container were drastically re-
duced. Thus, my trips to the
dreaded dumpster were spaced
farther apart. So what if my neigh-
bor calls me "whimpy
About a week after my recy-
cling project went into effect, my
apartment took on a new look, not
to mention a new aroma. The time
had come for me to get rid of my
collection of debris. But where
should I take it. Through a friend,
I found that the closest place was
across the street from Overton's
Supermarket.
So I loaded up the Buick and
started on my quest. Driving
across town, I experienced a feel-
ing of accomplishment. I was fi-
nally doing something to help the
environment. Instead of complain-
ing about the sorry state of the
world, I was acting out a plan for
improvement. It may sound kind
of corny, but who cares. The world
around me started to take on a
new look. Greenville has escaped
a lot of the environmental slaugh-
ter. By recycling, I am helping to
keep it that way.
Q. So lets wrap this up with
the final question: What is in the
future for the Attic and Tom
Haines?
A. The Attic is now in the
more than capable hands of joe
Tronto and Jeff Cobb. Joe has been
the manager for the past two years
and has been on the managerial
staff for the past ten years. Jeff was
a manager in the late '70s and
early '80s.
The Attics format will remain
the same, but with support from
the college community you'll see
an increase in the number of con-
certs. Joe isactively pursuing more
involvement with ECU organiza-
tions. Give him a call and you'll
see what I mean.
As for myself, I now live in
Charlotte (with my wife Nancy
and our two children, Tracy &
Adam) working with Creative
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Read along with Rita Long:
Rita gives advice for time management
Dear Rita:
I've graduated and don't
know where my life will now go.
I've applied to graduate schools
but if I don't get in the school of
my choice, 1 don't think I really
want to go anywhere else. I'm
contemplating looking for a job
butsincel'm the first of my friends
to graduate, I'm afraid to leave
Greenville. How can I overcome
my fear to leave this vacuum of a
city? I feel trapped and worry
that 1 will not be able to get out.
Signed,
Graduation
Dear Graduation:
In order to resolve this prob-
lem, first find out what it is that is
really bothering you. Then, con-
front these things within yourself
that foster your fear, one thing at a
time. Start with honesty?"To
thine own self be true Asvouare
successful in this process, you will
not only become independent bu t
you will like yourself.
Dear Rita:
I need money. Lots of money.
1 need desperately toleam to study
more effectively and to cope with
college life. Please help me ? I'm
desperate! I also have a problem
dealing with the tons of home-
work I have to do. Please give me
some suggestions. These profes-
sors act as if theirs is the only class
I have.
Signed,
Desperate
Dear Desperate:
You need peace of mind. You
need money and time. You desire
an education. Which is most im-
portant to you? It would help if
you could get your priorities to-
gether. Everything that is worth
anything has a price and you have
to find out if the price is too high
for you or if you are willing to pay
that price. Once you figure that
out, then do the best you can. As
far as the money is concerned,
there are always needs but you
have to work within your means.
If vou arc in debt, you can start
from where you are and work your
way from there. If not having
enough finance causes you men-
tal turmoil, then maybe you can
put vour education on "hold" until
you can resolve some of the debts.
Dear Rita:
Please help! I'm graduating
this summer and have now met
the man I have been waiting for.
But what is the point of beginning
a relationship with a person in
Greenville when 1 have to leave
Greenville to get a law degree. I
feel once you find that special
person, you shouldn't let go. My
career ismost important. I'mafraid
of gettingoff my career track. What
should 1 do? Help!
Signed,
Career oriented.
Dear Career:
Life always has tough choices.
Perhaps the thought of having the
man of your dreams has never
been challenged before. Now that
he has come along, the thought of
your education being most im-
portant to you is challenging your
pursuit of thisdream relationship.
Only you can decide which is most
important to you. If you get into
this relationship and you both find
that it's what you want then you
go from there working it out as
best you can. It may mean that
your education will be second on
your priority list and this dream
relationship first or vice versa.
Dear Rita:
One of my best friends is a
guy. We do everything together.
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advise each other on other rela-
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Help!
Signed,
Friend.
Dear Friend:
Are vou afraid to tell him
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because you fear rejection? As a
rule, we are harder on ourselves
than others are on us. You could
rehearse the situation and what
you would say to him in your
mind. Then, be willing to accept
his answer even if it is "no But
until you are able to accept his
answer, it probably would be wise
not to mention it to him. If he does
not share your feelings, are you
willing to keep this friendship?
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ECU students win contest for literary work
Two ECU students have won
the 1990 student essay contest of
the North Carolina Folklore Soci-
ety. Cheryl Dudasik-Wiggs, a
graduate student in English and
Women's Studies, has won the
Cratis D. Williams Prize, and
Donna Dunnehoo, a senior, has
received the W. Amos Abrams
Prize.
Ms. Dudasik-Wiggs's essay,
Hemingway
entitled "Samhain: Season of the
Witch studies contemporary
withchcraft beliefs and ntual in an
eastern North Carolina city. Ms.
Dunnehoo's entry is a study ot the
form and function of QSL cards,
the response cards used by ama-
teur radio operators. Both wrote
their prize-winning essavs for
folklore classes with ECU folklor-
ist Karen Baldwin.
The Williams and Abrams
Prizes are named for two noted
North Carolina folklorists who
taught at Appalachian State Uni-
versity.
The la teCratis Williams, chan-
cellor emeritus at Appalachian,
was often called "the Father of
Appalachian Studies W. Amos
Abrams was an important collec-
tor of Southern folksong and is
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editor emeritus of North Carolina
Education.
The North Carolina Folklore
Society sponsors its annual stu-
dent essay contest with the sup-
port of the Appalachian State
University Foundation.
Ohle said. "It made a deep im-
pression on the guv. He had a ball
out here
It was wild then. It wasa kid's
dream. Those were days when a
boy could steal away from his
mother's cottage and catch trout
and sleep under the stars. The
roads were dusty logging trails.
Indians lived in the woods.
Ohle points out the window
toward a dark strip of land jutting
across the sparkling water. That's
where Ernest loved to fish. That's
the point Hemingway's young
Nick Adams rowed to that last
night with his girl in 'The End of
Something
How's the fishing now? No
one knows. The point is privately
owned and trespassing isn't al-
lowed.
Hemingway spent every
summer of his youth at Walloon
Lake. In 1918, just 19 years old, he
went to Italy as an ambulance
driver. He returned from World
War I with wounds from 227 pieces
of shrapnel in his legs and took up
residence in a boarding house in
Petoskey, a hilly port town six
miles to the north next to Lake
Michigan. He also earned the
reputation of a ruffian.
Michigan changed. Wealthy
resorters built 22-room log cabins
with three-car garages amid the
tiny cottages on Walloon Lake.
Petoskev exploded into a commer-
cialized tourist town. Thebeanery
where Hemingway once ate now
sellsresorterclothes.It'sopenonly
in the summer.
Today, developers on I ake
Charlevoix advertise $325,000
waterfront condominiums on
"Hemingway Pointe" with a slip
"which will accommodate your
55-foot yacht
Biographer Constance Cap-
pel, in her 1977 book "Heming-
way in Michigan quotes an old
chum asking Hemingway if he
would ever come back.
"No he replied. "It's too
civilized now
Only Horton Bay, a logging
town on the skids when Heming-
way saw it, looks the same. Its
population has shrunk to 47.
Hemingway returned in his
writing, casting northern Michi-
gan places and people in one novel
and a dozen short stories about
birth and death and sex and trout.
Fact and fiction flew together
like particles in an atom smasher.
Hemingway exchanged the Fox
River for the Two-Hearted River
some 45 miles away. He turned
girlfriends into lovers.
Very real people got hurt.
Marjorie Bump for one. The red-
headed girl with the easy smile
who waited tables at Dilworth's
became Marge, jilted by Ernest's
autobiographical Nick Adams in
"The End of Something" and later
fantasized about in "The Three-
Day Blow
"She lived in terror of Hem-
ingway Ohle says of his cousin.
"They were obviously childhood
sweetheartsThen he goes and
writes her real name in a couple of
stories. All through life people
discovered she was the Marjorie
in the stories.
"She never got away from it.
It plagued her. I think this washer
first love, really. But half the time
it turned to hate
Marjorie Bump died a few
years ago.
Yet Hemingway stood in the
library with his cane and rakish
Italian officers' cape the winter of
1919 and told the Ladies' Aid
Society about the horrors and
glories of war.
Mostly, Horton Bay has left
Ernest Hemingway, just as com-
pletely as he left Horton Bay. The
general store has faded pictures of
him on the walls, a few Heming-
way T-shirts, a Hemingway book
lies on the coffee table by the front
window.
But few around remember the
rough-hewn youth with a vivid
imagination.
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Sports
May 23,7990
Pirates travel to Florida for baseball regionals
ECU goes to tourney
in third seed position
avers, coaches and tans alike awaited the announcement Monday on which region that the Pirates would be playing in. The Pirates will
Florida to compete in the Atlantic Region May 25-28 Also ptaymq in the Atl intic Region will be Miami. N.C State University. South
la Citadel and Stetson. The Pirates will open against the Bulls of South t Photo by J.D. Whitmire ? ECU Photo Lab)
league officials await Hart's decision
l MBIA, S.C. (AP) ?
rn Conference commis-
ave Hart plans to make it
? this week. Sort of.
urt, who turned 65 on May
I inform league officials at
gs in Myrtle Beach that he
retire July 1.1991. But that
I moan Hart will leave
iiately.
I e got a couple-year plan
it to give them Hart said
? an interview thispast week.
kind of a phase out to make
? -ansition easier for evm'body.
t snot a selfish motive. It'ssome-
that they've discussed with
me.
Hart, who was named the
fourth commissioner in league
history on July 1,1986, declined to
discuss specifically the plan he will
present to conference officials
during this week's meetings,
which begin Sunday.
The Southern Conference.
considered one of the top I-A A
football leagues in the nation,
consistsof Appalachian State. The
Citadel, East Tennessee State,
Furman, Marshall, Tennessee
Chattanooga, Virginia Military
and Western Carolina.
The meetings also will see
another announcement made: the
sites tor the league s champion-
shipevents,particularly where the
basketball tournament will be
held.l (art said the league will hear
presentations from two North
i arolina i ities VsheviUe and
(Ireensboro
rhe tournament has been held
in Asheville sine 1983, but the
confi ?- u should be
getting morill) tor its
premier o en? ?
ir O ntract
expin 11? .Uehascer-
tainlv prompthese communi-
ties to do mre than they've over
done or ever thought of doing
Hart said. "1 think we have a great
product. I think a lot oi people
want it. As a result, the conference
is going to come out pretty good.
"The conference has had con-
cerns over the years about ex-
penses we have to pay, compar-
ing what we have here to wha-
other people have. I guess we're
saving we feel like we ought to get
more. 1 don't want to sound hog-
gish, but maybe we should reap
more rewards than what perhaps
we're getting. The bid process is
creating that atmosphere
By Doug Johnson
Sports Editor
Prior to Monday's 2 pm press
conference announcing the seed-
ing? and regions for the 1990 Col-
lege World Series, many of the
ECU baseball players were specu-
lating on where the Pirates would
be opening their tournament plav
"They'll send us down South,
we always play in the South one
believed.
"Maybe they'll send us up to
Connecticut, then guessed an-
other.
"We'll probablv be sent to
Starksville, Mississippi one Pi-
ratelamented. Groans mixed with
uneasy laughter flittered across
the Pirate Club.
But the need for speculation,
predictions and guessing was soon
eradicated as Pirate players,
coaches, fans and media person-
nel sat in front of a satellite hook-
up to watch the announcement.
As the seedings for the Atlan-
tic Region were Hashed across the
t.v. screen, everyone saw the Pi-
rates at the number three seed in
the region, with games scheduled
to be played Mav 23-28 at Coral
Gables, Honda.
Everyone seemed happy to be
playing in Honda, and most were
impressed with the high seeding,
but a groaning shudder ran
through the room when they saw
N.C. State listed as the number
two seed in the region.
"How in the hell did they get
in at number two1" one Pirate fan
questioned angrily. There Wire
more moans of disbelief when the
Northeast Region was shown on
the screen, with UNC sitting
comfortably it the number one
seed.
When questioned about the
seedings. NCAA Selection ran
mittee Chairman (.one McArtor
responded: I don'l know whal
kind of explanation you want
What you're doing is pulling out
specific games, and again what
the committee does is look at th
entire60-gameseason And Ithrn
that in this particular instance, tl
committee felt HI N. State wa
a desen ing team, i think that vii
tually any team in the Held i
could pick out some game- th ll
they lost, we don't have anybody,
who's undefeated and soil wasa
caseot trj ? k thel csM h
that we can
But one person
happy with the results all around
was Pirate 1 idcoal ; iryOvei
ton.
"Fir A of all, I'n
fee seeding
we all heard Sell tion
tee member) Dave Keilitz fr
Central Michigan ' E
Carolina could ea rx-ei
number two ;
Homberthreesei I tt
we're real i i ited nor? I
We've nev r be
than five, but ?? bi ' :
sidored for a I
speaks for its If
"Atthesametirru
ued, "please ki ?;
when I NC is nui
N.C. State is number two, it t.
he ontii
mind tl
(Mir players that he;
-tahbvi? ?
wearecortamh goingdow nt!u
See REGIONAL, page 12
ACC must decide whether to
ban Terpsfrom tournament
oo-ge Clancy, coordinator of Soot. Hall, throws up a spray while skftnghe warm wea,her o, the las,
;eks was perfect tor outdoor and water activities. (Photo by J D Wh.imire - FCU Photo Labi
Ao we(
Tarheels reach final four for
in lacrosse for second year
UNC defeats Harvard 18-3 in quarterfinals
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ? The ACC must decide
this week whether to ban Maryland from the league's
basketball tournament because of NCAA sanctions
against the Terrapins.
"It'll be difficult. They've never banned anybody
from the tournament said Tom Mickle, an assistant
league commissioner and chief spokesman for the
eight-member conference. "That'll be decided,
whether Maryland's out of the tournament. There's a
lot of implications
The NCAA nas banned Maryland from being on
television during the upcoming season after finding
the school guilty of 18 rule violations under ex-Coach
Bob Wade. Every game in the Atlantic Coast Confer-
ence tournament is televised. So, something has to
give and league officials are expected to ban
Maryland from the tournament when they meet this
week in Myrtle Beach.
Moreover, Mickle said, the loss of Maryland
from the league TV package may lead to changes in
the contract with Raycom Inc a sports television
company based in Charlotte, N.C.
"The main problem is just finding what games
there are to put on TV, and how that affects the TV
contract Mickle said. "We've gotten to the point
where last year all except three games are on TV.
With Maryland this year, 14of themare not available.
'There's a lot of financial i ere
far as what's going to happen, mm th i tl al ontra
will be renegotiated or reduced or what the
going to do to trv to accommodate that
The Terrapins, who are appealing the vie, isi
by the NCAA to place them on three ors probati
March 6,areoneof three league teams mtroubl. ?
the NCAA.
North Carolina State is on two years probatu
and was banned from the 1990 N V basketba
tournament but will be eligible tor posts asor
this season. The NCAA found N.C. Stah did
control compliance with rules in connection withtl
handling of free tickets and basketball shi s
Clemson is expected to hear next week whetlu
it will be put on probation for the second time in le
than 10 years. The NCAA has charged that footbal
coaches and boosters gave players money and th
Clemson broke other NCAA rules from 1984 to Ws
The league is expected to discuss what, il
thing, it can do to try to make sure schools adhere
NCAA rules, Mickle said
"I think there could be some discussion as tar
that goes Mickle said, "and possfet) setting i
somekindofcheck-pointsystemorontluMtherci
penalties that'll be automatically imposed that an. i
See TERPS, page 12
HAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) ?
North Carolina's men's lacrosse
team moves into the NCAA final
four for the second straight year
itt.r downing fifth-seed Harvard
18-3 in the tournament quarterfi-
nals.
This is also the ninth time in
the last 11 seasons the Tar Heels
12 3) advance to the NCAA semi-
finals. North Carolina will meet
No. 1 seed Syracuse at noon Satur-
day in Piscataway, N.J. Syracuse
defeated Brown 20-12 Sunday.
North Carolina was ahead 13-
0 when the Crimson (12-3) scored
its first goal of the game with five
seconds left in the third quarter.
The Tar Heels scored their first
goal 3:15 into the game when Dan
Donnelly scored off an assist by
Dennis Goldstein. With 9:26 left in
the first quarter, North Carolina
made it 2-0as John Webster scored
the first of his three goals off an
assist by defenseman Graham
Harden. Goldstein got an unas-
sisted goal, the first of three for
him, later in thequarter and North
Carolina led 3-0 at the first break.
Webster scored the first goal
of the second quarter on an unasc
sisted tally with 12.28 left in the
quarter. Chip Mayer scored 24
seconds later and Huff scored his
first goal with 9:04 left in the first
half.
The Tar Heels then scored the
first seven goals of the third quar-
ter. Six of the seven Tar Heel goals
were unassisted with Goldstein
and Steve Huff getting two goals
each. Donnie McNichol, Jim
Buczek and Steve Speers had the
other goals in the period.
Harvard got on the board
against North Carolina goalie
Andy Piazza when it scored with
five seconds left in the third quar-
ter on an extra man situation with
Seth Handy scoring off an assist
bv David Kramer.
North Carolina increased the
lead to 14-1 early in the final quar-
ter when Andy I unkerton scored.
The Crimson cut it to 14-3 after
successive goals by Don Rogers
and rim Reilly.
NorthCarolmagotthegamc's
last four goals from Webster,
Holmes I iarden, Huff and Dan
Levy.
The Tar Heels outshot Har-
vard 60-30 Mi North Carolina
won the ground ball battle 68-48,
although theCnmsonhadanedge.
infaceoffs 15-9.
Chns Miller had 28 saves for
Harvard but allowed all 18 Tar
Heel goals. Piazza had 10 saves
and three goals allowed for North
Carolina.
Old Dominion University to
join ECU, others in CAA
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - - If
Lefty Driesell's comments are any
indication, the Colonial Athletic
Association is welcoming Old
Dominion with open arms.
"It makes the conference bet-
ter, and I'm for anything that does
that Driesell, James Madison's
basketball coach, said Thursday
of Old Dominion'sdeparture from
the Sun Belt Conference to join the
CAA.
"The tougher the teams in the
league, the better the chance for
getting more than one in the
NCAA tournament said Drie-
sell, whose Dukes lost the title
game at this year's CAA tourna-
ment.
Old Dominion withdrew from
the ECAC-South, the precursor of
the CAA, to join the Sun Belt in
1982.
But John lamanno, assistant
Sun Belt commissioner, told The
Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-
Star of Norfolk on Thursday that
he received a letter from Old
Dominion saying the Norfolk
school would leave the conference
as of June 1991.
The newspaper said Old
Dominion sent the letter after the
CAA admitted the school to the
league Wednesday during a tele-
phone conference call of CAA
athletic directors.
Old Dominion officials were
to formal I v announce the sv
at a news conference today.
"We're sorrv to see them f
lamanno said
In addition to lames Madfc
Old Dominion will join Richmond,
William & Marv, George Mason
American, East Carolina and
NorthCarolina-Wilmington in the
CAA. Navy is the league's eighth
member, but is withdrawing to
join the Patriot League following
the 1990-91 season.
"We hated to see Old Domin
ion leave us before said Jai
Madison athletic director Dean
Ehlers. "It's a good program with
good people
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n
12 The East Carolinian May 23,1990
Sports Briefs
Jordan's hip sore topic for Chicago
Michael Jordan's sore left hip was the main topic of discussion
Monday as theChicagoBulIsand Detroit Pistons prepared for Tuesday's
Game 2 of the Eastern Conference final series of the NBA playoffs.
Jordan fell hard on his left hip in the first quarter of Game 1 Sunday.
Jordan said Monday he is about 85 percent, and should be 95 percent to
99 percent by game time.
U.S. players defeated in first round
Sixth seed Jimmy Arias of the United States was upset Monday in
the first round of the Bologna (Italy) International by Jerome Potier of
France 7-5,7-6 (7-3). No. 5 seed Angelica Gavaldon of the United States
lost to Barbara Romano of Italy, 6-1, 6-1 in the first round of Monday's
Strasbourg (France) Open women's tournament.
Coin may be used as money-raiser
The U.S. Olympic Committee plans to seek congressional approval
of a commemorative coin program to raise money for its 992 Olympic
teams, USOC executive director Harvey Schiller said Monday. A simi-
lar program authorized by the 1988 Olympic Coin Act helped generate
more than $20 million.
Gov. calls for boxing commission
Wisconsin Gov. Tommv G Thompson called Monday for the
creation of a three-member advisory boxing commission in the wake of
last week's widely criticized fight in which ex-welterweight champion
Aaron Pryor knocked out his ex-sparring parter, Daryl Jones. Critics
said Pryor should not have been allowed to fight because he is legally
blind in his left eve.
Fans show little interest in Raiders
A new Oakland Tribune-Gallup poll shows 63 percent ol voters
think it is not at all or not too important thai the 1 L's Los Angeles
Raiders return to Oakland. Onlv 34 percent say it is very or somewhat
important. That's up slightly from the 59 percent who thought in
February it was not important.
NCAA rules editor Steitz dies at 69
Dr. Edward Steitz, 69, the NCAA basketball rules committee editor
since 17, and the U.Ss representative to the World International
Basketball Federation, died Monday at his home. He was nicknamed
the "father of the three-point shot because he pushed he pushed the
shoi into use during the WSb-b7 season.
Seles beats Graf in first round of Open
Monica Seles ended Steffi Graf's 66-match winning streak Sunday,
winning 6-4, b-3 at the German Open. Graf's streak was second in the
modern era only to Martina Navratilova's 74. Seles lost the first two
games before breaking Graf's serve twice for a 4-2 lead. From then on,
Seles controlled thematchasGrafcontinued to be plagued by unforced
errors.
Censhaw wins Colonial at 4-under par
Ben Crenshaw shot a 4-under-par 66 Sunday to win his second
Colonial golf tournament in Fort Worth, Texas. Crenshaw, the 1977
Colonial champion, overcame high winds and wet conditions at Colo-
nial Country Club to finish at 8-under-par 272. John Mahaffey also shot
66 to tie Corey Pa vin and Nick Price (68s) for second, three shots beh i nd
Barrios wins Bay to Breakers race
Mexico's Arturo Barrios broke the record to win San Francisco's
Bay to Breakers foot race in 34 minutes, 31.2 seconds for the fourth year
in a row Sunday. He led 70,000 racers, a few of whom ran in the nude,
covered with mud, despite a chillv drizzle. British-born Jill Hunter of
Boulder, Colo was the top woman finisher in 39:19.
Soviet runner disqualified for help
Soviet runner Irena Sclyarenko was the first woman to cross the
finish line in Sunday's 13th annual Revco-Cleveland Marathon, but
race officials disqualified her for receiving too much assistance from a
male teammate. Another Soviet runner, Valentina Lounegova, was
awarded first place, in a time of 2 hours, 44 minutes and 23 seconds. She
was about three minutes behind Sclvarenka.
No offers made for Colts' Dickerson
IndianapolisColtsrunningbackFncDickerson, who boycotted the
tcam'sminicampthismonthand has threatened to sit out training camp
when it opens in July, has has asked to be traded, but he doesn't appear
to be drawing offers. Colts general manager Jim Irsay said there have
been no serious offers.
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In the Locker
Offensive rebounding is key
Teams that had higher offensive rebounding percentages1
during the regular season proved to be formidable in the first
round of the NBA playoffs. The breakdown of teams that swept
their first-round series and those that won in four or five games.
Regionals
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with the intention of making a lot
of noise
Over ton did not seem sur-
prised with the high seeding of
the two ACC squads, but felt that
it could be a motivational factor
for his club.
"My hat's off to those two
teams for this reason he ex-
plained.
"Following theirlossesagainst
us, both home and away, those
two teams were on fire, they
played outstanding baseball. I
know State went through a little
bit of a slide following their loss to
us, then picked it back up and did
a great job in the ACC Tourna-
ment, and of course beat Southern
Cal.
"What Carolina has done
words won't even put into per-
spective he said. "I think that it's
well-deserving for Carolina to get
a number one seed, and for State
to be number two. I wish that we
could have been higher, but at the
same time, we're very pleased with
where we are
The number one seed in the
Atlantic Region is Miami, followed
by IMCSU at number two, ECU at
three. South Florida at four. Cita-
del at five and Stetson at six.
There were mixed emotions
among the Pirate players on play-
ing in Florida.
"We're very happy with being
sent down to Florida, it's a great
place to play said Calvin Brown,
ECU first baseman.
"We're just a little disap-
pointed about .C State being
seeded ahead of us. But I guess
we're going to use that as a moti-
vation when we go down there.
We re going to play hard anyway,
but I guess that will give us a little
rtr,i motivation
tommy Yarborough, out-
fielder for the Pirates, felt a little
differently.
fa me, it doesn't make a dif-
ference where we play he said.
"I feel like we've got a good
enough team that it doesn't mat-
ter who we plav or where we go,
m e're going to beat some people.
As tar as where we're at, I would
have rather gone out West. I have
Terps
a brother out West. But Miami is
fine, too
Pitcher Jonathan Jenkins had
mixed emotions about playing in
Florida. "We've been to Florida
twice before, and we haven't done
too well he laughed. "So hope-
fully we can fare a little better this
year. I think that this is the strong-
est team since I've been here, but I
think that it's a pretty well-bal-
anced region down there, and I
think that if we just keep on play-
ing like we've been doing, we
should be able to win some games,
maybe the whole thing
The Pirates will face the South
Florida Bulls on the opening day
of the tournament, and the scout-
ing report on them is sketchy at
this point.
"Our first report coming in on
South Florida is that they're very
much like us Overton said.
"South Florida is thought of in
their state much like we are in
North Carolina. By that, I mean
it's a team that has a good record
year in and year out, and gives
Miami, Florida State and Florida a
great deal of trouble. They plav
exceptionally well against those
teams, and usually win some of
the games. "
South Florida posted a 41-22
record in the Sun Belt Conference
this season and swept their con-
ference championship with four
consecutive wins. Their leading
hitter is Joe Lis, who batted .360
over the season, with 77 hits and
36 RBls.Threeof the Bulls'starters
are batted over .300 on the season.
On the mound, the Bulls have
a team average ERA of 3.21. The
two leading pitchers are David
Hutchesonand Winston Wheeler.
Hutcheson had a 2.05 ERA on a 3-
3 record. He recorded 47 strike-
outs and gave up 51 hits over 70.3
innings. Wheeler has a 2.30 ERA
and a 5-4 record with three saves.
He recorded 45 strike-outs and
gave up 70 hits in 66.7 innings.
The Bulls split with number
one seed Miami this season, los-
ing the first game 7-4, then coming
back for a 4-3 win in the second
match-up.
Continued from page 11
By Keith Carter. GNS
in the conference manual now
Mickle said league officials
may also discuss whether to levy
additional sanctionsagainst Mary-
land nd N.C. State. No decision
to ill be made about Clemson until
after the NCAA rules.
During the meetings begin-
ning Tuesday, the league is also
expected to announce the sites for
its championship events, includ-
ing its basketball tournament. A
two-year contract with the Char-
lotte Coliseum runs out after the
1991 tournament. The contract is
expected to be extended.
1 he league will also decide
whether to adopt two experimen-
tal bask ? bail rules this fall. The
choices:
A no-foul-out rule in which
an opponent would get three free
throws to make two on a player's
sixth and subsequent fouls.
Moving the 3-pomt arc back
l inches to the international dis-
tance of 20 feet, 6 inches.
An announcement may also
come on tot the meetings concern-
ing the ACC's TV football pack-
age, which runsoutafter next vcar.
Conference officials will also
discuss two other issues: NCAA
legislation designed to contain
costs ol running athletic programs
and the so-called model program
designed by the ACC's long-range
planning committee.
"I think a lot of time to-ill be
spent on all this Micklesaid. "The
conference will probably take
some sort of stance on all those
items
The model program calls for
changes in the way athletic pro-
gramsare run, including the elimi-
nation of athletic dormitories and
establishing a maximum number
oi class days an athlete can miss
per semester.
"I think vou'll get a pretty
good idea where our conference
stands coming out of there, which
will be pretty interesting Mickle
said.
B.). Skelton. NCAA faculty
representative at Clemson and a
member of the long-range plan-
ning committee, said the "mood is
right" for changes in how athletic
programs are run.
"I would expect us to be in
favor of this, of some type of model
program. I do think most people
arc interested in moremainstream-
ing of athletes he said. "This is
one of the most significant things
I have seen in my 10 years as a
faculty representative. 1 think it's
for real
Commissioner GencCorrigan
has said the ACC would probably
adopt some of the measures out-
lined in the model program uni-
laterally and would try to adopt
others jointly with other leagues.
Given all that could be de-
cided during the meetings, Mickle
said it may be one of the most
important conference get-togeth-
ers in a long time.
"I'd say this is one of the most
newsworthy conference meetings
I would expect that we would ever
have because of the cost contain-
ment and the model program and
the reform in college athletics he
said.
"Also, because of the proba-
tions in basketball and where our
television contracts are going in
regard to that, I would expect it to
be one of the most interesting
The ACC consists of Clemson,
Duke, Georgia Tech, Maryland,
North Carolina, N.C. State, Vir-
ginia and Wake Forest.
The East Carolinian is now taking applications for
sports writers. Apply in person at the Publications
Building, second floor.
(across from Joyner Library)
Bring clips if possible.
No experience required, just dedication!
Good luck to the ECU Pirate baseball team as they
travel to Florida for the NCAA baseball tournament
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Jesse Helms
fights AIDS
relief bill
page 5
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rate 3 times
national
average
page 6
First Lady latches onto new cause
Tut Amalgamatf.d Press
Since her husband took office,
Barbara Bush has been searching for a
cause that would define her as the
anti-drug crusade defined Nancy
Reagan. Mrs. Bush's original effort, a
pro-literacy campaign, stalled when
aides pointed out to her that if people
read more, they'd start thinking, and
if they started thinking, her husband
wouldn't get re-elected, and if her
husband didn't get re-elected, every-
body would give up on the idea that
she was a charming and pleasant
middle-aged woman and go back to
thinking that she was just another old
broad with an unexplained affinity
for fake pearls.
And so it was that at a jam-packed
press conference yesterday, First Lady
Barbara "Babs" Bush announced a
new moral crusade: fighting conti-
nental drift.
"The continental drift problem is
a plague that is sweeping our nation
Mrs. Bush stated forcefully. "The
continents of the world are migrating
towards each other, and ifs time we
all stood up and moved this country
backwards ? inch by inch, block by
block.
"All right-thinking Americans
must band together to stamp out this
terrible scourge she continued. "For
too long, we have complacently al-
lowed our great nation to drift to-
wards more unsavory countries like
Russia. Whoops, Russia'sour pal now.
Well, unsavory countries like China,
then.
"Clearly, this cannot be allowed
to continue. Every person in America
must rise up and help move our coun-
try back in the opposite direction. If
you're not part of the solution, you're
part of the problem. Remember: when
someone offers you drift, just say
'whoa
Mrs. Bush also called on employ-
ers to test their employees for drift
abuse. Shecontended that such "drift-
ers as she called them, were the real
reason America was losing its com-
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At a press conference this morning, President Bush shows reporters
how far the North American continent has drifted in this century alone.
petitiveedge. "Some would have you
believe that this (decreasing competi-
tive ability) is not due to continental
drift at all, but rather is a by-product
of this country's sorry excuse for an
educational system, its tolerance of
scientific illiteracy, or its tax laws that
effectively promote doing research
and development overseas Mrs.
Bush said. "Well, they're only saying
that because they're drifters and
they're anti-American
Reaction to Mrs. Bush's message
was immediate and overwhelmingly
positive. Citing the need to have one
person directing the country's drift
policy, President Bush created the
cabinet-level post of "Drift Czar In
addition, the president signed a tough
new "zero-tolerance" anti-drift law.
Under the law, anyone remotely sus-
pected of moving the continent even a
nanometer in any direction will be
immediately killed. Later, a trial may
or may not be held.
The movie and television indus-
tries also rallied to Mrs. Bush's side, as
big-name stars like Kirk Cameron
taped hundreds of anti-drift public
service announcements. One of the
more creativeanti-drift efforts tocome
from the entertainment world isa half-
hour animated show called Cartoon
All Stars jump On The Bandwagon. The
show, starring that beloved wascally
wabbit Bugs Bunny and many other
cartoon creatures trusted and admired
by impressionable children, seeks to
impress upon youngsters the impor-
tance of spying and ratting on par-
ents, friends and neighbors who en-
gage in drifting or other politically
unpopular behavior.
"We don't really care whether
children grasp the subtleties of this
complex issue, whether they are led
to weigh the individual's right to act
freely ? even self-dcstructively ?
against society's right to protect itself
from lawless and violent behavior
said Annie Thingforabuck, the
program's director. "We just want
them to get the message that drifting
is wrong
Several anti-drift groups are also
using television to warn kids about
the dangers of drifting. One grim
commercial, produced by Partnership
for a Stationary America, goes like
this: a man holds up an egg and says,
"This is your country Then he waves
a frying pan around and says, "This is
drifting Then he puts the egg in the
frying pan and wavesthe pan around,
causing the egg to fly off and smack
against the wall, as he says: "This is
your country drifting. Any ques-
tions?"
2 ? May 23, 1990 ? ECU TODAY ? It's only a joke; please don't write or phone. Thank you.
DEBATE
Plain Talkin'
By Alvin New hart
ECU Today founder
Hey, if s me again. Al Newhart.
ECU Today's founder. One rich
dude.
And listen, I gotta tell ya, about
this Jesse Helms. He'smy kindaguy.
If s been too dum long since there's
been somebody in Congress with
the guts to stand up and tell the fags
to cut it out.
I mean, Jeez. Why the heck
should we let them fags get away
with doing ? you know. So what if
they're consenting adults? So what
if they don't hurt others? The point
is that what they do is something I
find personally offensive, so they
should have to cut it out.
"But, Al you're saying, "what
does it matter to you what those
queers do behind closed doors?"
Why does it matter to me? Why
does it matter to me? Because it gets
me all nervous and jumpy, and just
not the kinda guy you'd want to
work with, that's why. And I get all
nervous and jumpy because I don't
get much sleep, and I don't get much
sleep because I'm always lying
awake at night, imagining what two
gay-boys out there somewhere are
doing to each other. Sometimes I lie
awake all night, just thinkin' and
thinkin' about them gays doing gay
stuff. My wife ? Ethel ? tells me 1
talk about it in my sleep. And a lot of
times, when I'm, like, you know, on
the brink of a big passionate climax
with Ethel, a lot of the time all I can
think about is just gay people and
stuff.
Funny thing is, I got to talking
with old Jesse at a fund-raiser last
time he was in town, and he told me
he has the same problem. Then he
invited me to spend a weekend with
him at his place out in the country,
so's we could talk about it some. I'm
looking forward to it already
THE BACTERIA
THAT KlLLEt
Hugh Manrights
An opposing view
Face it: Helms
is a jerk
As the local representative of
the American Civil Liberties Union,
I am appalled by the views so cavali-
erly expressed by the writer across
the page. Never in my thirty years in
this business have I seen such ram-
pant and inexcusable homophobia,
nor have I seen such an evidently
repressed homosexual.
(Regrettably, ECU Today must cut
short Mr. Manrights' article at this
point, as it appears that all five copies in
the office were involved in a freak acci-
dentinvolvinggrapejuice,alarge quan-
tity of rubber bands, and Mr. Newhart's
personal paper shredder.
(But as long as we have some space
to fill, we'll fill you in on some of the
stuff that's been happening around these
parts. We've expanded the entertain-
ment system we had put in a couple of
months ago, and, with the addition of
some new software, we no longer have to
write any news stories at all! The com-
puters write 'em for us! So all we have to
do is sit around and watch HBO on the
42-inch Sony Trinitron, munch pork
rinds, and sleep. What a life!)
Published by Offense Unlimited
? a division of Serrano Books?.
Published every other week,
unless there are more pressing
considerations. Like, for
example, if the editor gets
mugged.
ECU Today is a satirical
publication which occasionally
bothers people who don't have
their emotions sufficiently under
control to take a joke. ECU
Today is not recommended for
Media Board members, ignorant
and censorious types, or anyone
else who is capable of being
offended in any way whatsoever.
QUOTELINES
'U can't touch this
? M.C. Hammer,
Rappin' Kind of Guy
"Once again, Paul you've crystallized my thoughts
? David Letterman,
Late Night Talk Show Host
"Don't want to make a decision. Don't like forming opinions. Not sure
what side it's politically smarter to suck up to. No moral principles of my
own. Still testing the winds
? George Bush,
President of the United States of America
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VOICES Was Senator Helms right to fight against the AIDS bill because it "subsidized homosexuality"?
Q. Pid, 32
Matchmaker
Greenville, NC
Absolutely not! Senator Helms
shottU have fought against the bill
because most of the money it pro-
vided would go to helping babies bom
with AIDS. I'm sick to death of help-
ing babies do this, helping them do
that if they get a disease, they should
fight it off, not come whining to the
federal government for money.
R. Ucoming, 32
Flag-burner
Grifton, NC
I think that people afflicted with
homosexuality can learn to overcome
their condition. And I think that they
should be encouraged to seek help for
the homosexuality disease. And if a
side effect of that is condemning to
death babies who simply had the mis-
fortune to be born with AIDS, well,
thafs life. Or death. Whatever.
. Mugya, 32
Mugger
Farmville, NC
Jesse Helms has sent a message to
all who would engage in homosexual
behavior. What that message is, I have
no idea,but it'sa message. And I think
that the message should be sent, be-
cause, you know, homosexuals don't
get a lot of mail. Except for all those re-
election flyers from old Jesse that keep
showing up in their mailboxes.
G. Whiz, 32
Record Labeller
Garner, NC
Have you ever noticed that these
quotes always manage to exactly fill
the space available? I mean, they're
never a line too short, or a line too long
they're always exactly the right
length. I wonder how they manage to
do that? I mean, do they squeeze the
linescloser together,ordo they change
the size of the letters, or cut the guy off
.
1
It's only a joke; please don't write or phone. Thank you. ? ECU TODAY ? May 23,1990 ? 3
Dead people sick of discrimination
The Amalgamated Press
Dead people are often excluded
from jobs, restaurants, and other so-
cial situations. And the late Barry L.
Place is fighting mad about it.
"We've been discriminated
against long enough screamed Place,
addressing a crowd of about 3000
corpses arrayed in New York's Cen-
tral Park Tuesday. "Do you realize
that a deceased person in this country
can't even own property? As soon as
the government finds out a person
has passed away, it moves in and lays
claim to everything he ever owned
Place pointed out that dead people
have been discriminated against for
at least as long as humans have kept
records on the subject. Specifically, he
complained that dead people are
nearly always burned or buried in the
ground, fates that rarely befall the
living. "And does the government
intercede in our behalf?" he asked.
"Never
Place demanded that the govern-
ment address the situation immedi-
ately. He called for legally mandated
hiring quotas to give the dead equal
representation in the workplace and
said that colleges should hire more
dead professors.
"The lack of non-living profes-
sors causes two problems Place said.
"First, the college provides inadequate
diversity of viewpoints, so living stu-
dents are not exposed to the unique
blend of insights that a non-living
professor could offer. Second, de-
ceased studentsarediscouraged from
completing their educations. Did you
know that not a single deceased stu-
dent graduated from an accredited
college last year?"
Place went on to say that broad-
casters should "give corpses equal
time to respond to on-air comments
that portray the deceased in a nega-
tive light and perpetuate outdated
stereotypes about us
But the primary focus of Place's
proposed reform is on changing the
words used to refer to the dearly
departed.
"We've been called 'stiffs 'ca-
davers 'carcasses' and, worst of
all, 'dead We're not 'dead Place
insisted as the crowd cheered, "we're
'living disabled
In a private interview after the
rally, Place and his kindly adviser
"Maw" Zoleum discussed the nomen-
clature issue at greater length.
"Our first priority is to institute
an entirely new set of euphemisms to
refer to the departed explained
Zoleum. "And every ten years or so,
we'll make a big stink and insist that
the euphemism be changed again. As
soon as people start to notice what a
dumb term 'living disabled' is, for
example, we'll change it to 'living
challenged That way, it looks like
we're doing something worthwhile
Place's remarks were praised by
most observers ? including politi-
cians, already competing for the all-
important "dead vote" in the 1992
elections. But not all commentators
were quite so overwhelmed by Place's
arguments. Dr. Dee Tractor, of ECU'S
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Things, casts a cold eye on Place's
criticisms. She notes that there are
valid health reasons for excluding
dead people ? er, that is, living-
disabled people" ? from the com-
pany of their living counterparts.
Place angrily dismisses such
comments, calling them "mere truffles
? uh, trifles
"The fact is Place growled, "and
you can tell this to that corpse-hating
'doctor that there's just one reason
the living disabled are discriminated
against: after a couple days, we start
to smell bad
Kemp stops being nice
The Amalgamated Press
Housingand Urban Development
Secretary Jack Kemp, who announced
last week that he will sieze leases from
public housing tenants suspected of
dealing drugs ? even if not charged
? declared Monday, "No more Mr.
Nice Kemp I'm gonna start getting
tough with them druggies
Kemp's new plan to cut down on
drug use involves evicting not only
public housing tenants suspected of
dealing drugs, but also their neigh-
bors.
"I mean, really said Kemp. "You
can't live near someone and not know
if they're dealing or using drugs. Get
real
Thoughtful observers expect
Kemp will soon begin evicting not
only the immediate neighbors of sus-
pects, but also their neighbors' neigh-
bors, their neighbors' neighbors'
neighbors, their neighbors'
neighhbors' neighbors' neighbors,
their friends, their relatives well,
you get the idea.
Asked if he had considered the
possibility that actual drug dealers
might charge innocent but nosy neigh-
bors with being dealers just to get
them out of the way, Kemp replied,
"Hey, is that a spot on your tier
Why you need
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Other credit card companies
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you buy with their plastic.
We protect something more valuable:
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Our research shows that people who
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have a tendency to meet with strange and
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it would be real sad If something like that
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If you don't apply today and make the
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if your kneecaps just suddenly broke.
So apply now for the American Excess? card
and our unrivaled "protection" plan.
It's an offer you can't refuse.
4 ? May 23,1990 ? ECU TODAY ? It's only a joke; please don't write or phone. Thank you.
Bush on taxes:
'Re-read my lips'
The Amalgamated Press
After this morning's round of tax
talks with Democrats, President Bush
offered reporters a surprising inter-
pretation of his famous 1988 campaign
pledge not to implement any new
taxes.
"1 wasn't saying 'no new taxes
the president explained. "I was say-
ing 'no gnu taxes No taxes on gnus.
Gee, I hope I didn't mislead anybody
Bush went on to blame "some
irresponsible elements in the media"
for the public's in terpreting his words
as "no new taxes
"All 1 was trying to do was pro-
tect the young gnu markets that were
just opening up in the United States
Bush whined, adding that the fledg-
ling gnu industry was vitally neces-
sary to ensure future US. competi-
tiveness in the world market.
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taxes on gnus, yaks, llamas, gerenuks,
gazelles, reeboks and tapirs, but
doubles all other taxes paid by any-
one earning less than $100,000 a year.
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