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The Carolina Journal HOWARD L. PEARRE, Editor Editor JIM CUNNING. Business Manager BETTYE TRAPPS. Feature Editor JIMMY PRICE. Sports Editor PHOTOGRAPHERS: Tommy Estridge. Chief. Dick Raley, and Parris Hastings Staff: Robbie Snipes, Robert England, Barbara Sue James. Hugh J. Horsley, Sharon Dailey. EUison Clary, Martin Richek, Nick Stravrakas, Wayne Howard, r? L«^Francol8. Erline Mabrey, Gloria Roberts, Clay Robbins, Don Spriggs, Mary Morgan. Ava Newman. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1965 Of Law And Honor The test of any law as to whether it is a good one or not is whether or not it works. We believe the law passed re cently by the Student Legislature and approved overwhelm ingly by students to make the honor code one of honor is one that wUl work. However, to have a law work, and particularly this law a certain element is required from the subjects the law governs. This element is support. Students have shown by their vote that they at least promise to support the law. But to be an effective law it must have more than this. The honor code needed a promise of support to become a law. Now the pomise must be fulfilled. Letters To The Editor Petition A petition is now being prepared to send to President Johnson and others supporting the United States’ policy in South Viet Nam. The petition, started by Journal staff writer Don Spriggs, is an outgrowth of recent and not-so-recent goings-ons by students and pseudo-students who seem to think the policy this country is using in that troubled area is not the wisest one. Students, faculty members and others who sign this petition are not saying the policy is the wisest one, but that it is the wisest one anybody has come up with yet. Persons who believe it is a bad policy have a right to think so. They have the right and the responsibility of letting others know their feelings. We also have that right. We also have the mentioned responsibility. K you support the policy our government is using in South Viet Nam you have the responsibility of signing this petition. If not, you should start your own petition. United We Give “The community has given you your University; what have you done for the community?” This is the slogan chosen for the campus campaign to collect $1500 for the United Appeal. It is quite appropriate, we believe, since the community has given many times over that just in books for the library. Last year the school’s quota was $1500. Students gave less than 7 per cent of this amount. Over 1800 students now populate this campus. We should go over our mark by about $300. Parking It has been repeatedly said that on-campus parking has become quite a problem. We wholeheartedly agree, but with a different problem in mind. Every day between 30 and 40 empty parking spaces can be found in the paved parking area behind the Union. Despite this, students and faculty members continue to park in front of, behind, and beside the no-parking signs on the entrance road to this parking area. This is not only a violation of campus parking codes, but also dangerous. It should be stopped. The sooner it is, the better. Dear roach Sins are sins and it might well be That vw the bettle insulted thee; But one sin you have that Richek has not Is that sin of anonyniity. Let’s ’Put Up Or Shut Up’ On Speaker Ban Issue As the old saying goes, “Every one talks about the Speaker-ban, but as yet I have seen nary a soul do a thing about it.” I cer tainly think it is excellent to think about something in a certain way, to really believe, or not believe in it. Of course, talk is cheap! Let’s have a little action around this university. If we are all as concerned about this issue as we say we are, let’s show it. Why not have a pro test march? It works for other issues, it certainly is worth our efforts for this one. I think it’s about time that we all decide where we stand on this issue. Also if we are willing to stand up for what we believe in. In other words “to put up or shut up.” AVA NEWMAN DEAR BOSS i have just been recruited by the international beetle cartel to fight the underground war against that terribly evil and vicious organization the system so this will be it for a while and it will be some random access and maybe even some random abcess not all greek gods have clay heels some have stone heads all is for naught the ship has sunk and the survivors who did not really survive are so busy trying to walk on water that they do not even realize that the ship has sunk i found a secret perhaps the secret and after all why should i tell you question mark it is no big thing and the way it is going it never will be finally mine vw the beetle agantMO LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS The Carolina Journal wel comes letters to its “Letters To The Editor” column. Letters should be written on one side of the paper and typed if pos sible. All letters must be signed; however, the author’s name may be withheld by request. Forest Green? Ugh! There are certain committees on this campus that are trying to force students to accept what the minority wants. In talking to some of the students, I have found there has been much dis favor in the choice of green and white school colors. The legisla ture asked this committee to take a vote on a choice between dark blue and white and forest green and white. At the last legislative meeting there was'enough debate over the school colors to show the committee that the students were not behind their choice. There is enough apathy on this campus that it is hard to believe that the colors committee wishes to add to it by pushing green and white on us. I don’t want forest green, and I am tired of someone else telling me what I do want. JIM CUNNING Dear VW Due to my limited time, I shall try to hold down the lines. Trying not to be as wordy And certainly, God help, not as dirty To appeal to you with all my heart. To stop putting the horse before the cart. Should this student legislature be blamed Who take no credit but are only shamed. In the eyes of the students that they represent By the uncouth mouth of a wordy gent, Who do their best to judge what is right Only to be jeered by a talkative mite? 0 thou beetle bug, where is your morals To sit with the rest upon their laurels To cry with others of the prin ciples of democracy, Which is within the germ of hypocrisy. the roach TTRYiNG TO BEAT THE PACKING PHOBLEM TOO, EH ? UNIVERSI-m ch^lotte J, Will Interest Come With Basketball? By HUGH J. HORSLEY Wilma, in response to your let ter printed in the last issue. The only measure of the effi ciency of a venture such as pub licity is the number of people it informs about any given activity. If the peopie are not informed, then the attempt has failed. It does not matter if every square inch of the campus is covered with posters; if the people do not know about the event, then you have still failed. It is obvious that the vast majority of the stu dent body did not know of this last dance. Now I am quite pleased with the last efforts of the publicity people here on campus. The Halloween Dance was well pub licized. I do not see how any regular student could remain ignorant of it. The only conceiv able reason for the lack of at tendance is lack of interest or desire. There does, however, exist the possibility that they were unable to attend for one reason or another, however even with these forced ab sences, we should be able to draw a large crowd. The lack of desire and interest is what disturbs me. Last week I attended a lecture by the Brit ish Consul General to Atlanta. I found that though there were no conflicting classes, very few peo ple were in attendance. I hate to think that there are so few peo ple interested in the political state of the modern world. I can not believe that most of you did not know of the lecture tor you couldn’t pass in front of the lib-, rary without seeing a poster an nouncing his presence. As a mat ter of fact, you had to walk around it to get down the side walk. Also, concerning the matter of attendance, I have been told that in the first meeting of the tine arts council, right after my last column, only one person was in attendance. In short, there does seem to be a general absence of school spirit here. Perhaps every one is saving his or her attend ances for the basketball season.
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