The Carolinian [November 6, 1986]

              EDITORIALS SPECTRUM SPORTSCENE
IFC
takes
offense
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Music Scene
History of American music in the media
Spartans
go to
playoffs
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THECAROLINIAN The Student Voice of UNCG
Editor
to resign
Greg B'own, editor of The
Carolinian since February, told
the University Media Board Fri-day
he would resign effective
Jan. 1 of next year.
Brown said he was stepping
down primarily for financial
reasons. "Managing the
newspaper requires a minimum
of 20 hours per week," Brown
said, "but the monthly
honorarium amounts to only
about $150. I understood that
when I took the job, but I had
another, better paying job lined
up for the semester which fell
through.
•'And I think I've done about
all the damage I can do. The cur-rent
production staff now knows
what to do and how to do it. The
Carolinian, whatever its faults,
is in considerably better shape
than I found it."
The University Board Media
will appoint a successor by the
end of the semester. Applications
will be accepted for the post
immediately.
Qualified applicants must be
UNCG students registered for at
least three hours next semester.
Once selected, the editor may not
hold concurrent office in other
student organization which
receives direct allocation of stu-dent
fees, including the Student
Legislative Assembly, the Com-muting
Student Associatin. the
Graduate Student Council, the
Elliott Center Council or the
Residence Hall Association.
All candidates for the post
must submit a letter of intent,
three current letters of recom-mendation
and a grade release
form for evaluation of grades.
There is no minimum grade point
average the candidates must
meet to be eligible.
Candidates for the editorship
will be interviewed by a selection
panel appointed by Media Board
Chairman Gary Cerrito. The
selection panel will then issue a
recommendation to the full
Media Board, which will select
the new editor in closed-door, ex-ecutive
session.
Look, ma! No strings!
Giant puppets paraded through the park behind Aycock Auditorium Monday to publicize the Studio
Theatre's production of The Wife of Bath t Tale to be presented Monday in the Studio Theatre of
Taylor Building. Director Robin Mclntyre says the play will be "in the manner of the Bread and
Puppet Theatre" and that students should expect the unexpected and beautiful.
Volume 66, Number # 9
Sanford
wins seat
Says students can make a difference
By JENNIFER GREEN
Candidate for the United States Senate Terry Sanford, in a brief
but impassioned speech, emphasized the role of young people in
facilitating political change at a rally on Oct. 29 outside Elliott
University Center.
Sponsored by Students for Sanford, a network encompassing 76
community and technical colleges across the country, the regional
rally waa the third and final of Sanford's major college rallies, the
others held at Chapel Hill and Central Piedmont Community Col-lege
according to regional co-ordinator for the Greensboro-High
Point-Burlington
area, Amy Farley.
Farley is coordinator for eight schools, including Greensboro Col-lege,
UNCG, High Point College, Elon College, Guilford College,
Bennett College, Guilford Technical Community College and North
Carolina Agricultural and Technical Institute.
"The idea is to give people a chance to meet the candidates and
to see them in person," said Farley, referring to candidates San-ford
and sixth distric Congressional candidate Robin Britt.
The first speaker at the rally, Britt said he saw opportunities for
prospective students obtaining grants and loans for higher educa-
Continued on page 7
Ellison knocks
fundamentalists
By J. SHAVER
Friday night, on Halloween, award-winning author Harlan Ellison
spoke in Aycock Auditorium to a wildly enthusiastic audience.
Once described by a colleague as the only man alive whose stack
of Hugos is taller than he is, Ellison is famed both for the numerous
awards he has received, and for his contributions to many varied
fields.
He was the writer of an episode of Star Trek that won science fic-tion's
highest fan award, the Hugo.
He has successfully sued the producers of the hit movie The Ter-minator
for plagiarism. He was story consultant for the revival of
Twilight Zone during its first season, when his screen play, "Paladin
Of The Lost Hour" waa broadcast.
It was the novelette adaption of that episode that won Ellison his
latest Hugo, bringing his total for that award to eight and a half.
Ellison proved to be a genial, witty speaker, to the delight of all,
except perhaps for any who hoped to witness the full unleashed vrorol
of a writer reputed to be the most acerbic man in science fiction.
To these, he may indeed have been a disappointment, for he was
friendly and funny, even fielding the enthusiasm of one loud in-dividual,
whose condition could best be described as 'chemically
enhanced', with charm and aplomb.
Ellison opened with a warning that his lectures were R-rated for
language, and invited the easily offended to go ahead and leave.
Continued on page 6
Glasser returns
for workshop
Dr. William Glasser, author of
the popular "Take Effective Con-trol
of Your Life," will lead a
day-long workshop Monday,
Nov. 17.
The workshop entitled, "Dr.
William Glasser: New Ways to
Put Reality Therapy in Use in
Your Work and Your Life," will
focus on applications of the
internationally-known
psychiatrist's work, especially his
new concept of Control Theory.
The workshop is designed,
Glasser says, for anyone who
works with unhappy or irrespon-sible
people—educators,
counselors, school ad-ministrators,
psychologists,
social service administrators,
clergy, correctional and proba-tion
officers, or health
professionals.
Glasser drew a crowd of 500
people two years ago when he
lectured at UNCG.
The basic reality therapy con-cept
is that people—miserable
and unhappy as they may be—
are responsible for what they do.
Reality therapy helps them
understand that they are respon-
Isible for the ineffective things
they may do, think and feel, that
Money
these are choices and that more
effective choices are almost
always available.
The workshop, sponsored by
the School of Education, runs
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will be
held in Cone Ballroom in EUC.
The cost is $35 for those who pre-register
by Nov. 10, and $40
thereafter. More information is
available from Jan Marmor in the
Office of Continuing Education
(334-5414).
Continued on page 2
Ex-Contra: Nicaragua should be left alone
By MICKEY FREEMAN
Edgar Chamarro is a
frustrated man. At 55, he has
seen his home country of
Nicaragua face a greedy dictator-ship,
a devastating earthquake
and continuous civil war.
He says it is time for an end to
the was in Nicaragua and time
for the United States to stay out
of Nicaraguan affairs. As a
former contra, he should know.
This is the message that he
brought to more than 200 in-terested
listeners last Sunday in
Elliott Center during a visit
sponsored by the Students Con-cerned
for Central America at
UNCG and the Carolina Inter-faith
Task Force of North
Carolina.
Chamarro and his family fled
to Miami just before the San-dinistas
overthrew President
Somoza's dictatorship in 1979.
He left at the last minute because
he was unsure of which of many
political groups would gain
power.
"I opposed Somoza,"
Chamarro said. "But I was not a
Sandinista. I wanted to wait and
see the direction of the revolu-tion."
He said the Sandinistas
were the most radical of groups
vying for power.
While in Miami, he and other
exiled Nicaraguans formed the
Union of Democratic Nicaragua,
a conservative group who
favored a non-violent expulsion
of the new Sandinista regime. In
1982, he was approached by the
Central Intelligence Agency and
asked to be one of seven leaders
of a new anti-Sandinista group
they were forming conposed of
exiled Nicaraguans who opposed
the Sandinistas.
Chamarro had reservations
about working with former
Somozan national guardsmen
whom had been known for
violent crimes committed against
civilians while under the former
dictator. However, he decided
that joining the new group, the
Nicaraguan Democratic Force
was in charge of communications
and public relations. He also was
the one who talked with Con-gress
and concerned visitors. He
was in charge of propaganda and
"political indoctrination'' of new
troops.
"We had to create an impres-sion
that we were the good guys
and the Sandinistas were the bad
guys," he said. "We used labels
such as Marxist-Lenin to create
a bad name for them and used
the name freedom fighters and
Christians for the contras to give
them a good name."
According to Chamarro, the
CIA trained and equipped the
FDN and even participated
directly in some fighting. He said
"/ opposed Somoza. But I was not a Sandanista.
I wanted to wait and see the direction of the
revolution."
(FDN), was the best way to do
something about deposing the
Sandinistas.
"I was trying to facilitate the
sociala and economic transforma-tions
many Nicaraguans were
demanding," he said.
Chamarro was named one of a
seven-part political directorate
that was to lead the FDN. He
he was always paid nunoney in
American cash, even though
Congress had outlawed
American assistance at that
time.
As time passed, he became
disillusioned with U.S. involve-ment
"We were told by the CIA
to say oae thing in publbic but
were told something else in
Chamorro
private," he complained.
Perhaps the most frustrating ex-ample
of this came in 1984 when
U.S. mining of Nicaraguan har-bors
resulted in the sinking of a
Soviet vessel. Chamarro was told
to claim credit before the San-dinistas
had the chance to public-ly
implicate the U.S.
Finally, after two years,
Chamarro quit his position realiz-ing
that the FDN was not turn-ing
out to be what he had hoped.
"We were not controlling the
military and were committing
abuses against innocent
citixens," he claimed. "We were