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THE SUMMER EDITION OF TECHNICIAN, N.C. STATES STUDENT NEWSPAP u 6% £3 . VOLUME LXX,NUMBER 95 ' WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 2. 1989 NOW THE NATiON'S LARGEST THFilCE-WEEKLY UP FRONT: TPLAT ‘OLD RELIABLE’ BIAS PAGE 3' r ‘ ,- NEWS: CREDIBILITY OF ‘FOULS’ COREY: AT LONG LAST, A REALJOB PASET ' ' r ”Mural Fouls' wartspgyeEs usqj drugs.” Ewt‘~ ~ :25,x, 2.3::‘533mm:~("422.35% 353'f“. RAMSEY: LAWYERS AND STOOGES PAGE 8 ' a , ~ ' In this one-newspaper town, the ‘Old Reliable’ is MONTGOMERY: STUDENTS’ the only way to get the poop, and that’s bad REACTIONS news. 899PL‘HOpiniorT,1 page 3. ' PAGE‘iO “ Ammo» 5mm /./ KARLE. KNUDSEN ATIURNEYAT LM v r “on Bills TECHNICIANhopseveral positions ' " - ‘ ' w Are m" “' available for the Fall semester. Getting Harder To Pay? Interested? Give one of our kind- CRIMINAL LAW 1y editors a (2:11] at 737-2411. Do You Need A New Tennis Racquet. Stereo, Computer Software/Hardware, PERSONAL INJURY 0r Dorm Refrigerator? WRONGFUL DEATH Auto rode“. lien" WW?“ {In Haw a... 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February 1. 1920 Editorial News Editor Jennifer Holland Assistant News Editor Wade Babcock Opinion Page Editor Daphne Edwards Features Editor Dan Pawlowski iceSportsMontgomeryEditor Photo Editor Michael Russell Assistant Photo Editor John llzhoeler Graphics Editor Geof Brooks Chief Copy Editor Ken Towery Copy Editors Justine Anastasoff MICHAEL RUSSELL/ Smrr Marc: Bernstein The News and Observer makes us want to puke. vate company. In fact. the very next paragraph said Vulvuno did Systems"Editor- Over the last five years, we've withstood a definite anti-NC. talk with commission members about matters not related to J'l'V _Michael,Lefler State slant to their paper. It's been a slant deeper than just running Enterprises. The story is stacked against Valvano. and it could havc , ‘Sewlcejn‘gineer stories about Charles Shackleford‘s speeding tickets on page one. been presented fairly. Duane Whitehorst and whenever an NC. State sports team (basketball, football. Ironically, the next Sunday. the N&O ran an editorial calling tor wrestling. volleyball, etc.) beats a UNC team, it runs at the bottom Chancellor Poulton‘s resignation. Their whole arguemcnt was that comer ofthe page. he wasn‘t sewing the university's interests. Well. let's check out the anus-maria A little over two weeks ago, the N&O editors revealed the N&O's record in serving the public about NC State news. Last 5. Libedgh breadth of their prejudice against NCSU with their coverage of the December. exactly how many times did they report. without a end of the UNC system probe. Their reporting in the story head- doubt. Coach Sheridan was leaving to go to University of Georgia? lined “NCSU players refused to help investigation" borders on Or the University of South Carolina, later that spring? How many “false light" invasion of privacy. John Day. an N&O staff writer. times. according to the N&O. has Coach Valvano been this close(!) reports in the second paragraph that Valvano “refused to release to migrating to A) The New York Knicks. B) Los Angeles business records the investigators had requested.” However. it Clippers. or C) UCLA? wasn't until about five paragraphs later that he reveals that the The N&O should stick to reporting the news, rather than creating investigators asked for records to JTV Enterprises, Valvano's pri- it. Reporting is good. Rumor mongering isn't. — TECHForum and then grow back together, Lutman’s argument with the result being fertility. Does cover represent phllosophies? Production Manager ' considered absurd, The pill. condoms, IUDs and \ David Krause other methods of binh control I am pregnant (and thrilled Assistant Manager transparent are even more likely to fail, about it!) and look like the john Horton Denis Lutman's Opinion col- resulting not in something profile on the left, but my phi— Layout Artist umn on the right of a woman to meaningless, but in something losophy is pro-choice. Perhaps Nathan Gay have, or the right of the state to all too meaningful to a woman this photo is not an accurate Archives Manager deny, an abortion is a study in with no desire to be a parent representation of the two Nancy Motsinger obtusity. At one point Lutman pregnancy. views. calls the term “unwanted preg- Of course human. being a nancy" meaningless because, man, will never. ever, in his Martha Moore TECHNICIAN he says, “they chose not to use wildest dreams or nightmares, Coordinator of Career ServingNorth CarolinaState Universitysince 1920 contraceptives." Apparently have to make the choice that he Development and Placement Lutman is unaware. or chooses is determined to deny others. College of Agriculture and Technician (USPS 455-050) is the official student not to acknowledge. that no The transparency of his argu- Life Sciences newspaper of NC. State and is published every method ofcontraception is l()0 ment is his insistence on clut- Monday, Wednesday and Friday throughout the academic year from August through May except percent effective in preventing tering it up with such nonsense durtrrgscheduled holldayand examinationperiods. pregnancy. As any reputable as cannibalism. Clearly if ther. in the obvious hope that poorly conccivcd lilt'.l.\ l‘l lllx the simmer edition is published every Wednaday doctor will say, as my doctor Lutman had any intelligent or no one would notice what ht: closed mind. Lutman should from May through August. Offices are located in told me I 1 years ago when I well-reasoned arguments con- really wants. which is to dictate get in touch wrth lilo: lt'dl world sum3120-3121 ofthe University Student Center, CateAvenue. Raleigh, NC 27607. Mailing address had my tubes tied. even tubal cerning abortion he would have his own narrow-minded opin- before exposing llh lunch-n aBox sans, Raleigh, NC27695-8608. summon ligation is not 100 percent reli- used them. Since he has no ions to all women. Perhaps ideas to public \l'lllllllV cost $45 per year. Printed by Hinton Press, able. This is not theoretical such intelligent argument. he someday be will find a wife Mcbane, NC. POSYMASTER: Send any address speculation, but rather is docu- threw in the absurd comparison willing to let him order her l.ll) Scigli changes to Technician, 80: 8608, Raleigh, N.C. mented medical fact. it does to cannibalism simply to cloud around, but in the meantime the (icncrul Mundgcr 2769543608. happen that tubes can be cut and cmotionalize the issue fur- rcst of us have no interest in his Vlt‘L‘lllllt‘ltlll 4 AUGUST 2, — TECHNews ‘ Personal Fouls ’ ublished 9 Inaccuracies, van-xv- misspellings .spgf,p.:._«1-,».'gym mar release of v32t. book By Jennifer Holland News Editor W‘q-W "Personal Fouls." the long—awaited expose of NC. State‘s basketball program. .tl'll‘.‘ct,i in Raleigh bookstores last Friday. The book. which paints a dismal picture of 5-1.7»;ka basketball at NCSU, is marred with misspellings and inaccuracies. mé-t According to The News attd Observer. the 7:: hook alleges that former Wolfpack star as (‘hris Washbum played under the influence \\\llll\llrlHVlllllel \t\lin\ttartstlllllvl of cocaine and that players used chemicals to mask drugs in urine tests. It also asserts .