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Before we go any further, let me
make a couple of things clear: yes, I
did know that the Turks were fierce
fighters, and yes, 1 knew they fought
along side with Americans during
the Korean War.
I just had to get that out of the way
because several questions had been
relayed to me concerning my
editorial on the Cypriot civil war.
Now, 1 have a few questions: a)
what do the Turks have to gain by
claiming the Greek facist
government has fallen in a coup; b)
why did the Turks invade Cyprus; c)
why did the Turks agree to cease fire,
then bomb Niscosia at
approximately 11:15 Monday
morning, about one hour and 15
minutes after the cease fire was
supposed to take place; and, d) if 'c
is true, will the Turks continue to
break the cease fire?
Humble soul that I am, 1 still have
to admit some inkling of an idea in
the way of answers do indeed flutter'
across the barren landscape of my
mind.
Propaganda has a large effect in
any war, especially one confusing as
the one on Cyprus; Cyprus means
quite a bit to the Turks, politically
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American in Swia
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After a "red carpet" luncheon at the Orient
Palace Hotel in Damascus, compliments of
the Syrian government and a local guide
agency, our walking tour began. We walked
down the "Street-called-Strait" and, as best
we could, chatted briefly with a few people
on the street. As in Lebanon, the general
sentiment for Nixon and Kissinger was a
very good one. Hopes were high that Arab
American relations would draw even closer.
Omyad Mosque, second holiest mosque in
the Moslem world, was the most spectacular
place we visited. One of 360 mosques in
Damascus, its ornate walls were adorned in
silver and gold, with over 900 Persian carpets
sewn together to cover the floor of the main
temple. Its majesty put all our churches and
cathedrals to shame. For me, though, the
smsil of feet was almost overpowering.
To my surprise, I learned that John the
Baptist and Jesus Christ are Moslem
prophets. Enshrined in the Omyad Mosque
is the legendary head of John the Baptist.
John's head must be the most popular in the
Mid-East. I also saw it at two other places,
both in Jerusalem. Clifford Irving, eat your
heart out.
The end of the afternoon brought us to a
beautiful Syrian palace, owned privately by
one of Damascus' largest exporters. We were
ushered into a courtyard of various fruit
trees surrounded by gigantic, hand carved
columns of stone, intricate floor mosaics and
colorful frescoes covering entire walls.
The owner appeared and, clasping the first
Marcus Williams
"The right of the people to be secure in
their persons, houses, papers and effects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated, and no warrants shall
issue, but upon probable cause, supported
by Oath or affirmation, and particularly
describing the place to be searched, and the
persons or things to be seized." (4th
Amendment to U.S. Constitution)
"All persons born or naturalized in the
U.S., and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
are citizens of the U.S. and of the state
wherein they reside. No state shall make or
enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the
U.S.; nor shall any state deprive any person
of life, liberty, or property, without due
process of law; nor deny to any person within
its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws." (Section 1, 4th Amendment to U.S.
Constitution)
The question that we in Student
Government wish to raise to the State of
North Carolina, to the Administration of
this University and to all students here at
UNC is this "are students citizens, too?"
According to the Constitution of the U.S.
indeed the answer is obviously yes. But the
recent incident in Mclver Dormitory casts a
shadow of doubt as to whether the,
University Administration or the local law
enforcers think the answer is so obvious.
On June 16th, a "security" check was
made on each room in Mclver Dormitory. .
Five women had men in their rooms after1
b:".l visitation hours and were reported.
Th:y are now facing Honor Court charges
end trial. The interesting point, however, is
that neither the local law enforcement
officers nor any employe of the University
Housing Department thought it necessary to
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and economically; and I believe the
Turks will not break the cease fire
again, at least until they mean to
break it completely.
Are you just a little confused.. .just
a little?
Don't worry about it, we're all
confused.
There are a few things that
everybody should be able to see for
themselves, without too much
confusion. The Turks could over run
Greece if they launched an all-out
attack, and if they did not mind a
large amount of denunciation by the
world powers. .
At the same time, most of the
world is displeased with the way the
Greeks have acted in Cyprus, not to
mention Greece itself, so few people
would see it as a great loss if the
present Greek government vanished
from the face of the earth, electric
cattle prods, rubber hoses and all.
Thus, it seems logical to me the
Turks should lay off of Cyprus and
Greece for the moment, and let
world opinion do its devastating
best to loosen the strangle hold of
the Greek government on Cypriot
internal affairs.
Americans he saw and embracing them,
exclaimed, "Welcome, my American
brothers, to Syria, to Damascus, and to her
finest palace!"
As a grand finale of Arab hospitality, he
invited us inside and hosted us to food and
cool drink.
Everyone was worn out but no one dared
sleep on the bus driving back to Beirut. To ,
ride through Syria is an experience; to drive,
there would be insane. The British drive on
the wrong side of the road and the Greeks
drive on either side, as they seem to have no
real preference. But Syrians have them all
.beat because they drive right the middle,
dodging donkey carts, old ladies, street
vendors, the crazy-courageous traffic
policemen, and the many, many trucks. All
the vehicles in Syria seem to be cross-wired
because everytime they applied their brakes,
their horns would blow. Arab drivers delight
in passing big trucks on blind curves, and
once, our bus driver, flying along with 46
passengers, raced a train to a crossing and,
fortunately, beat it.
I could relate many stories about the royal
Arab hospitality, from police escorts to all
the free meals. As an American, I was
extremely surprised and feel I cannot
overemphasize it. Throughout southwestern
Syria, we saw the products of war and the
fierce determination of the Arabs to
overcome it and move on. In the Palestinian
refugee camps, we would see the sad and
terrible war as it still is.
Tver: a demand for citizenship
obtain a search warrant. If a door was
propped open as is said, then perhaps
probable cause existed for a room check; yet,
even if probable cause was established, to
open closet doors-and search under beds
without a warrant was irresponsible and
indefensible. Surely a resident would quietly
point to her closet if a would-be Jack-the-ripper
lurked inside! No, this was an
unjustifiable act by the persons involved,
directly and indirectly, and merely typifies a
growing lack of concern for both the rights
and the welfare of University students. After
all, aren't students citizens, too?
This insulting incident has promulgated
considerable student outrage, and justifiably
so. Now is an opportune time for students to
solidify and demand that they be respected
as citizens and adults. They must let the
administration know that they desire
respect. Perhaps, then, some progress can be
made. First, the Administration should see
the urgent necessity to obtain and honor
student opinions and assistance for decisions
and policies concerning student affairs.
Secondly, a Student Bill of Rights should be
implemented immediately. University
contracts cannot require any student to
forfeit the privileges and immunities of his
citizenship. And finally, hasty and
meaningless affrontals of student privacy
should be stopped. Perhaps if a littie more
effort was made by the Administration to
understand student needs, then the tensions
would ease, and the possibility for litigation,
in the form of a civil action suit, would be
removed.
There are many other questions
concerning this search, however, that
deserve immediate attention. First of all, it
would be helpful to know whether the
policemen asked for permission to enter this
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Time can heal, can console. It can cover
the past with a fine dust of forgetfulness, and
its mistakes with the tenuousness of memory
that fades like the winter light slipping ever
so softly into tomorrow's darkness.
It can also run out, like a mile-run pacer
breaking the tape ahead of a record-holder
slowly fading in the backstretch.
If time hasn't run out for us on many
counts, it is surely setting a record pace while
the rest of the field, heaving with the sweat of
intransigence, tries to keep pace with a clock
that indeed waits for no one.
On any level the dynamics of social change
make up a long and well-worn path.
Sometimes the path straightens and
narrows, and ends in the stagnation of a
closed society where the journey becomes a
submission to the tyranny of collective
authority. Witness Soviet Russia, Nazi
Germany, People's China, or Commercial
America any society in which the
individual is subordinated to the demands of
people, the environment, or the machine.
Sometimes the path is hacked out of the
environment as an assertion of the authority
of the individual and ends in the type of
society that condones greed and cruelty in
the name of social acumen, ecological
savagery in the cause of material wealth, and
a self-serving form of public service that puts
no demand on what one can do for society
but rather on what one can do for oneself.
Witness the social paranoia of big business
and politics as exemplified by Watergate
Letters to the editor
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To the editor:
In response to your column in Friday, July
12th, I can sympathize with your desire for
communication with the people you serve. I
am a student at UNC and have really
appreciated your newspaper for the past
several years. It has served not only as a
source of information, but' also of
communication, advertisement, self
expression and general human interest.
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student residence or if they demanded
entrance? It would also be of interest to find
out who was in charge of the search the law
enforcement agency or the Administrative
staff? If the police were in charge, did they
possess knowledge of the University's room
entry policy? Who determined the formal
procedures to be used during the search?
Was the search spontaneous, or was it
premeditated? If it was planned, who did so?
Who and or what was the real focal point of
the search?
As the chief instrument of the Student
Body, what can Student Government do
about such situations? Several steps have
already been taken. Several cooperative and
competent attorneys have been consulted on
this matter and have provided us with
invaluable advice. But in order to both
remedy the situation and to prevent needless
recurrences, student government and the
Administration must communicate and
cooperate. Already several constructive
measures have been initiated. The
Administration is now working with Student
Government and the Residence Housing
Association in finalizing an official room
entry procedure. The new Judicial Reform
Bill (effective this fall) also refers to this
(page 36). Student Government has also
been assured by the Housing Department
and Ted Marvin, Director of Campus
Security, that a full investigation of the
incident is being conducted in both
departments. We are also now asking Dean
Boulton of Student Affairs to see that some
type of adjudication is taken against any
guilty administrator. If he fails to reply, then
we will take the matter up with the
Chancellor. Another overriding concern to
higher-ups of Student Government is the
students' right of anonymity. Contrary to
the
do it unto others before they do it unto you.
Or the petty stealing that arises not for the
sake of subsistence, but simply because
whatever belongs to all belongs to the
individual.
Sometimes the path forks, and the
contention and indecisiveness of having to
choose which road to take ends in a
collective submission to a Leader who will
make all the decisions or in anarchy a
situation in which competition becomes the
over-riding order of the day and the
demands of Thoreau's "quiet desperation"
make men contend as beasts against each
other and against themselves for economic
survival. "The business of America is
business" according to Calvin Coolidge
not the means of gaining harmony with
ourselves and our environment, but rather
the daily regimen of gettting ahead until you
are and have everything and gain nothing
but an ulcer and an early death.
Sometimes, but ever so rarely, do paths
converge at a point wide enough for all to
walk hand in hand and narrow enough to
challenge the loneliness of individual
ambition but then only at that point where
we can keep pace with time and balance the
lessons of the past with the mistakes of the
future.
Lincoln once said that you can't fool all
the people all the time. He was wrong. We've
been fooling ourselves for along, longtime.
As a nation we seem to have deluded
ourselves into thinking that the past is no
Along with being a student, I am also a
volunteer staffer and current co-chairperson
of the Chapel Hill Peace Center. We at the
Peace Center are having a lack of response
from students and community during these
lazy summer days. Now is when we really
need response though.
We especially need folks to volunteer to
staff the office for a couple of hours once a
week. We are trying to organize our library
rumor, we have been assured that no letters
were sent to the accused girls' parents, and
that none will be sent.
But, more importantly, this incident
should make students increasingly aware of
several long-range improvements which
need to be implemented immediately. First,
the RA and RD training needs to be more
extensive. On the night, or morning, of the
search the members of the housing staff were
continually asking questions of the police,
when, in fact, it should have been the
opposite. As was already stated, none of
them stopped the search and demanded a
warrant. In fact, some RA's completed the
search after the officers had left. One can't
fault the RA's, but rather must contribute
this oversight to a lack of information. One
high level administrator stated that he was
concerned about "students' rights"
specifically complaints by females of males
in halls and bathrooms at late hours. Surely,
this is an RA's responsibility, and no
reasonable defense can be built around
having a policeman search a women's dorm
to chase men from the rest rooms. Secondly,
the time is past due that the CGC, in behalf
of the students it represents, takes visitation
violations out of the courts and make them'
contractual offenses.
Finally, this incident should drastically
illustrate the need for a student attorney,
both to counsel students and to protect
them. These suggestions are all feasible and
are being studied. If the efforts of Student
Government in this incident don't prove to
deter future searches, then Student
Government will deem any further violation
of a student's rights as a constitutional
violation, and through use of the justice
system, will deal with it as such.
past: futile,
longer the portent of the future: we can act
within a totally new framework without
points of reference in the old. All we need is
the present and an unshakable faith that we
can seize the future an bend it to our will.
The American dream, for example, was
founded on the. premise that out of the
depths, the ashes, and the ancient grime of
Europe arose a new man, scrubbed clean of
the past and unfettered in his attempt to
build a new life intensely separate from the
old one. We thought that by escaping reality,
we could outrun the past. We thought we
could insulate ourselves as a homeowner
insulates his house against termites, frosts
and floods.
But the past has caught up with us, and we
are repeating its mistakes: we have as much
chance of a permanent victory over it as we
do over the thousand little things that make a
home not so sweet. The only insurance we
have against a crumbling foundation is
either to build a stronger one or to crawl
down among the timbers in the dark and
shore up its weaker members. Call the first a
political choice; the second, an historical
one. .
The past has an infinite reach and an even
more powerful grasp. Fleeing it, to borrow
from a recent novel, is like a perpetual trip up
the down staircase, with the past perpetually
escalating the stairs.
Thus our isolationism has cut us off from
the greater body of humanity and its
experience and has led us to look inward and
for votamlteers
and files so that students can use the Peace
Center as a resource area in their studies.
There is an abundance of information and
literature around the center dealing with
topics from ecology to impeachment to
feminism.
I would like to encourage the public that
we try so hard to serve to respond by calling
or coming by the peace center, 207 Wilson
Court, 967-7244. We need your concern.
Diane Spaugh
Co-chairperson
Chapel Hill Peace Center
Nighttime tennis
lost in the dark
To the editor
First, some background: We, the
undersigned, being avid tennis enthusiasts,
make a sincere effort to play tennis on a
regular basis. Generally, we try to volley
during the daylight hours, (We just love
those ultra-violets.) But, on occasion, we fail
to bounce the fuzzy ball before the sun sets.
It is on one the few occasions that we wish to
resort to the 20th century marvel of lighted
tennis courts. However, without fail, each
time we have attempted this feat, the person-in-charge
has shrugged his responsibility by
failing to switch. The most recent of these
Alan Bisbort
On deatli
Evel Knievel's Jump of a Lifetime (not to
mention of the Twentieth Century) could
more aptly be subtitled "The Ideals of
Humanity and How to Get Them to Work
For You in Six or Seven Very Grueling
Lessons.
Not since Neil Armstrong's moon
shattering pronouncement of "one small step
for me, one giant leap for all the rest of us"
have we had any inkling of what was meant
by Mr. A's enigmatic utterance. Mere
mortals we are. Earthbound and sinking.
But, have we come to this?
It's T Minus two months and counting
until we get our chance to view yet another
spectacle where there's a very good chance
someone will get killed or permanently
maimed. So what else is new.
This event, in which Mr. Badass Evel
attempts a rocket-propelled leap over the
gaping and craggy jaws of the Snake River
Valley Canyon, coincidentally links the two
most versatile elements in American life:
money and death. Death, on the one hand,
everybody faces. Money, on the other hand,
eludes most of us. Death has a finality about
it (in regards to what's happening on this
planet and in this dimension).
Evel Knievel can get up to $15 million for
this jump, and, whether or not he lives, it will
be his last jump. Too bad. He had all the
earmarks of the new Bobby Riggs.
Somehow, though, he has more to lose
than old Popsicle Face Riggs, especially
after all the hype, build-up and money
milking that went on in that pseudo-tennis
match. It's too late now. Bobby and Billie
Jean are happily counting their money.
What can Evel do with $15 (or even $30)
million? Can he eat any better? Not really.
But his backers sure will. Nothing like big fat
financial backers with gold-monogrammed
belt buckles-to set things up. Those people
always manage to get their greasy fingers
into other people's achievements.
Evel's jump will be on closed-circuit
television a jump which will last less than
one minute. The big worry seems to be what
the promoters will do to take up time as a
preliminary. Surely they're not going to herd
everyone into folding metal chairs just in
time for the jump and three minutes later
tragic
in solitude for solutions to our problems. We
feel no need to learn from others' mistakes
and, as George Santayana once put it, we
condemn ourselves to repeating them.
We propose a new political and social
order completely divorced from the old one,
and we now suffer, and tolerate, the same
injustices and tyrannies we try to escape.
We condemn the physical barrenness of
the Old World and praise ourselves for the
abundance of the New. Now we build homes
on garbage pits.
We praise ourselves for our tolerance of
high crime rates,' poverty, high
unemployment, poor health care, corrupt
government, meaningless employment, a
mediocre intellectual and moral
environment, violence (but not sex, which
may tarnish the soul but I think is less
immediately dangerous than a bullet in the
brain), mass mayhem, and the decline and
fall of human awareness, spontaneity and
intimacy to the demands of social
acceptability and the Gross National
Product.
But we cannot tolerate ourselves.
We condemn class societies and promise
ourselves an egalitarian future. To insure the
millenium, we divide ourselves into those
more equal than others and those less equal
than all in the name of status and prestige.
If you've been away looking for the fork-in
the path, welcome home.
We may indeed never pass this way again.
Or ever have the chance.
episodes occurred Sunday evening, July
21st.
Upon awakening the friendly campus
policeman, and asking for his assistance, we
roamed 'hither and 'yonder in search of the
mystical one with the ultimate knowledge of
the light switch. Finally determining that no
such human existed, we replotted our path,
sipped on a cool one, and pondered the fate
of our $40.50 activities fee.
Jim Chitty
Kay Young
Letters
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welcomes, but urges the expression of
all points of view on the editorial page
through the letters to the editor.
Although the newspaper reserves the
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Student Union.
audi nBOimey
herd everyone out again. Perhaps
beforehand there will be a monkey
attempting the jump on a unicycle. Or maybe
Monty Hall will try to make a deal with Evel.
Maybe the world is coming to an end once
and for all and Evel Knievel is our last
saviour. Are we going to let him die?
One final example which summarizes my
feelings better than 1 am capable of
expressing (I should have just printed this
and saved everyone the trouble) is the betting
which will inevitably accompany this event.
How many categories will there be for
betting?: Whether he makes it or not (not
specifying whether he lives it is conceivable
that his body could make it and he be dead)?
Whether or not he even attempts the jump?
Or, whether or not he lives?
I'll make a bet with anyone right now. I bet
that a large number of people will bet against
him making it alive. And want to win their
bet.
Can you imagine their disappointment
when he makes it? Like 1 said, money and
death are very versatile.
And, in some remote corner of Evel
Knievel's mind just possibly there resides a
thought that maybe if he would bet against
himself, he would be able to race cycles in
some other life.
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