Tuesday, February 7, 1967
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Opinions of The Daily r Heel are exPressed in its editoriaIs- A un
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the personal views of their contributors.
SCOTT GOODFELLOW, EDITOR
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
'Coo's There?"
A Necessity
A referendum is vital.
And not two months from now.
We need to reach a campuswide
conclusion on the Administration's
Vietnam policy as soon as effective
discussion can take us there.
Tonight Student Legislature will
meet. Before it will be presented
a resolution calling for the refer
endum. In the interests of campus
unity and understanding, that re
solution must pass. Student Body
President Bob Powell is expected
to ask Legislature to hold the ref
erendum, perhaps in April, after
Spring Elections. Such a date
would drag out a controversy which
must be settled now. A March date
would be best. .
Another letter to the President is
in the works. It is hoped by the
group that this time the President
himself will talk to them, since he
ultimately determine policy.
A recent poll showed that there
are a large percentage of UNC stu
dents who do not back the signers
of the first Vietnam letter. It is im
portant that these persons be able
to indicate their feelings regarding
future letters.
It is hardly our intention to try
to prohibit Powell from express
ing his views, even talking to the
President. It is certainly his right.
But it is our intention to learn
whether or not most of the campus
is in accord with the position Pow
ell held in the Washington meet
ing. From impressions gained by
news service reports, most of the
country believes that Powell is rep
resenting our feelings. He has -c.
been particularly singled out as an ...kg
organizational head of the group. '.
A simple, immediate "Yes-No"
vote of the campus is vastly in
sufficient to demonstrate our ac
cord on a matter as complex as
Vietnam policy. Thereby the ref
erendum was suggested, with a
date which would allow maximum
di- Hussion.
Powell must be given credit for
supporting the referendum, for
even he admits that his cause may
not poll the number of votes that
the administration's will. His rea
soning is that the situation is one
which invites the most serious of
appraisals, and that college stu
dents are in perhaps the best sit
uation to make such appraisals.
The proposal for the referendum
is far-reaching both in depth of
study and in the effect which it
will certainly have in stimulating
thought and discussion far beyond
Chapel Hill boundaries. It includes
arrangements to invite speakers to
UNC who have been vocal in their
opposition or their support of
Administration policies in South
east Asia. The student leaders who
signed the first letter to the Pres
ident would be invited to come here
to defend their stand. Administra
tion officials would be asked to v
come to Chapel Hill with their
views.
The only conflict which tends
to disrupt these plans and a March
conclusion of the Vietnam policy
examination period is the date of
Spring Elections.
As we say below, the only prac
tical date for the election is March
21. And campaign periods usually
last 3-4 weeks before the voting
day. This would mean that a refer
endum would necessarily have to
be held March 7 or 14.
These dates would allow time
for visiting speakers to be notified.
Vice President Humphrey is alrea
dy scheduled to discuss Vietnam
here early in March.
The campaigns of political can
:il 4i4aiewouW,snQt play .asAlarge a
part as they often do until the last
two weeks. But that is the time
when most campaigning is done
anyhow.
The referendum is a plan to
spade up a wealth of ideas. It
cannot avoid initiating a fervor
which won't diminish with ques
tions, but will continue seeking un
til satisfactory principles have been
reached.
Tii
Troubles
Last Thursday the Elections
Board asked Student Legislature to
approve its recommendation to set
spring elections for March 21. Al
though there are certainly political
reasons to the contrary, this date
is by far the most feasible.
The recommended date was set
by consideration of time needed for
conventioneering, campaigning,
voting, and even the time neces
sary for study near the end of the
semester. It included allowances
ofrun-offs.
According to Election Laws, the
spring election must fall between
the third Tuesday in March and
the third Tuesday in April. The un
timely date of Easter eliminates
from consideration all Tuesdays
except March 21 and April 18.
April is the desired date for
those who want a short campaign
period (Easter vacation ends on
April 2). But proponents of this
date neglect many practicalities.
Tradition has set March as elec
tion month. (March 22, 1966; March
23, 1965) It would always seem ad
vantageous to hold the election be
fore the spring recess rather than
following it.
Furthermore, an April 18 elec
tion would place students in the po
sition that it might easily be well
into May before new officers were
inaugurated. And then only two
weeks would remain for the for
mation of an administration and
the ensuing Legislature appoint
ments. A run-off election at that time
would surely burden academical
ly all persons involved, since May
is the busiest month of the spring
' semester.
Tonight Student Legislature will
likely once again consider the date
of the election. Certainly political
motives are not synonymous with
bad motives, but solely political
motivation for the April 18 date is
faulty and should be reevaluated.
74 Years of Editorial Freedom
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Hedgpeth, Students Blasted
To the Editor,
I find it more than a little
pathetic to read the quotation
attributed to Dr. Edward
Hedgpeth in the DTH.
So Dr. Hedgpeth doesn't con
demn. . . indiscriminate pro
miscuity. What giant steps
backward have, we taken when
the director of the Student
Health Service can stand-up
and be so counted.
As the "new Morality"
moves in on us (and isn't it
really plain old immorality) I
can't help but wonder how
' many youn& people are letting
' themselves in for a lifetime of
regret. Many are the product
of a permissive environment
which have managed to stifle
the voice of conscience for
years.
The final' touch of pathos
comes when it is suggested
that "parental permission
should be a deciding factor"
in the final decision to use
oral contraceptives. So, when
the new morality fails to solve
young peoples problems, once
again old Mother and Dad
can be dragged up for blame.
Patricia Sullivan
106 Dickinson Court
To the Editor:
RICHMOND TIMES
DISPATCH
Have you noticed all the
space being devoted by the
Richmond sports pages to
North Carolina football here
lately? Such topics as Dooley's
recruiting in Virginia and Wil
lard's determination to play on
the East Coast are two of the
favorite topics.
As far as recruiting is con
cerned, I can't see why any
high school boy in the Com
monwealth would want to go
to Chapel Hill where students
go to classes in sweat shirts.,.;
T shirts, and sneakers; When-y
ever Dooley makes an appear
ance in the Old Dominion we
should make it known he is
strictly person, non grata.
Regarding Willard, I'm
sure many of us couldn't care
less whether he plays in Cali
fornia, Baltimore, or in Tim
buktu. Too bad he couldn't
have felt such loyalty to col
leges in his own state.
Shelley Rolfe seems to be
vobcessed with everything
about North Carolina. I would
not be surprised if he were one
of the natives.
William D. Hart. Jr.
Richmond, Va.
Crowd Yells Brave!
By CAMPBELL READ
The performance of "D o n
Giovanni" in Hill Hall was a
triumph for Dr. Wilton Mason
and the team of performers, or- '
chestra and technicians who
put it together.
The legend of Don Juan is a
blend of comic and tragic dra
ma, and the performance of
the opera hi English gave the
audience the chance to enjoy
much ' of the humor which
would be missed in Italian.
Although there is much talk of
his amorous escapades, the
Don is seen throughout the
evening to be notoriously un
successful in their pursuit
There is at times a confusion
in the action which no pro
ducer finds easy to clear up,
and as the story goes that old
Cassanova himself, writing
his memoirs in a castle in
Bohemia, had a hand in revis
ing da Ponte's libretto.
- Gossip also had it that Mo
zart had love affairs with all
three of the leading ladies in
the first production in Prague
in 1787, but such facts always
get inflated, and there are al
ways those who never believe
an artist capable of creating a
- dramatic figure without having
personally gone through its ex
periences. Be that as it may,
the opera was written and
staged in the space of ten
months, and may be counted
one of the greatest operas of
all time.
0 The first impression in Hill.
Hall was that of enjoyment; x
the energy and depth of Moz
art's, music, reflecting humor
and tragedy in turn, was real
ized with precision and verve
in the orchestra (conducted by
. Dr. Mason), and sung by a
cast clearly trained to show
character as well as vocal
ability. Dr. Mason seems to
have concentrated on the com
edy, although this was at times
mixed with serious elements
in the plot; for example, Le
porello trembling under the ta
ble in the presence of the
statue with the Torce of some
dreadful fate was the in
tended overall effect to be com
ic or otherwise?
Leporello was played by Ro
bert Porco, who established
an immediate rapport with the
audience, in a performance
with many comic asides (Why,
its just like a novel"), an
entertaining conspirator in the
Don's adventures. He has an
excellent lyrical voice one
might have looked for more
power, perhaps in some of his
arias.
Joel Adams did very well as
Don Ottavio. It is not an easy
part; a young nobleman who
comforts his betrothed, but
without much dramatic oppor
tunity to develop character.
His "Dalla Sua Pace" was a
deserved success, being very
difficult to sing, although a sof
ter tone, or more variety in
tone, would help him here. Jeff
Ishee not only executed an ex
tremely pleasing set, but gave
us a sympathetic interpreta
tion of Masetto, the stupid but
well - meaning servant who
twice almost loses his Zerlina.
For the female performers
one can only have praise. Mar
ilyn Burris has recently won a
national award, and as ex
pected, her singing as Zerlina
was one of the highlights of the
evening, Mozart at its best.
The same goes for Rebecca
Barnes, who played the stony
hearted Donna Anna with fiery
spirit. Both of these gave a
good account of themselves last
year in "La Boheme" as Mimi
and Mustetta, and we were,
lucky to have them again in
this production. Both have op
eratic voices, as has Martha
Hill, in the role of Donna El
vira, the damsel in distress.
This part was played with
great spirit, and sung with
To the Editor
Apparently a large number
of people feel that somehow it
is more "moral" for a girl to
bear an illegitimate child, or
for a couple to rush into a
forced marriage (at a time
when one marriage in three
ends in divorce) than to try
to avoid these evils by mak
ing the "pill" easily available
to unmarried women.
People who think this way
(Dr. Hedgpeth seems to be
one of them) automatically
assume that the pill will lead
i to promiscuity. In fact very
few women are promiscuous
: and those who are inclined to "
be so are unlikely to be stop
ped because the Health Ser
vice isn't prescribing the pill
for them. But, of course, it
would be more "moral" for
such an emotionally unstable
girl to become the mother of
a child or to be forced into a
marriage which almost cer
tainly would end in disaster.
What world are these people
living in?
Yours truly,
Thomas A. Cabarga
207 Church Street
Chapel Hill
power and accomplishment.
But the opera depends more
than anything on the Don, and
here full credit goes to Ken
neth Smith. He has devel
oped vocally since "La Bo
heme," and even further since
he played the pompous buffon
Poh-Bah in "The Mikado",
a bass part. His voice is now
placed in the upper register,
under training from Dr. Ma
son, and was in good shape
for so demanding a role, with
its difficult runs in some of
his solo parts. Vocally, one
might pick out the duet with
Zerlina as one of the events
of the evening. Dramatically,
we could not have asked for
more. He has considerable ex
perience, and gave us a Don
full of character, scheming,
ambitious and profligate, but
with no illwill towards any
body unfortunate enough to
corss his path; always dom
inating the scene while on
stage, and in the end carried
off to' hell by four, demons in
a scene making dramatic use
of flashing glaring lights.
The ensembles were balanced
very well. This is no small
achievement, since Mozart
gives every part a vocal line
in keeping with the charac
ter played. It was not" always
easy to hear, when the sing
ers were-backstage, and "this
is a drawback to Hill Hall
acoustics.
Apart from the above, my
only complaint is that the
Don's serenade and Ottavio's
aria in the second act were
cut from this production. Why
not cut his first aria instead,
which Mozart wrote in 1788 as
an afterthought, to please the
leading tenor, a man who
thought that he deserved to
have another aria to sing?. Oth
erwise, a good time was had
by all, and that in the end is
what counts.
LSD, Leary And Love
(Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in
the Oklahoma Daily.)
By DAVID WISE
f'Come into mv world." Timothv Leary gestured
at me from the stage of a Greenwich Village theater.
During winter vacation I sat in a gathering of peo
ple of all sizes, shapes, ages and economic positions
and listened with an urgent sense of curiosity, some
time intermingled with flashes of whole-hearted agree
ment and-or deen-rooted cvmcism. to the words of this
modern-dav phenomenon, who could already be on the
wav "out" after les than a year of notoriety.
As I listened, the reasons for the commotion he has
stirred up. both with the law and with his followers,
and the reasons for his becoming "passe," were qnite
obvious.
Before exoloring Dr. Tearv himself, one must first
havft an inkling what th' "nsvchedelic revolution" is
all about. The most available source is the recent
Plavbov interview with I earv. an ex-Harvard profes
sor who is presentlv facing possible prison sentences
as a result of his yearning to form a psychedelic com-munitv.
LSD is a drug that gives the user halucinations
and makes him withdraw and see things that his mind
has never before Dercived. Use, possession, sale, or
jtransportation of the drug is illegal and offenders are
apt to be subiected to strict punishments.
Allow me first to set the mood.
Upon a darkened stage that usually bears the
weight of New York's Borscht Belt entertainers sat a
man playing Indian Rage music on a sitar, a mandolin
like instrument. After 20 minutes of this relaxing mu
sic. Dr. Timothv I eary, clad in sport shirt and jeans,
entered and began to speak in a low, smooth voice, ex
plaining his League and the religion he had recently
formed in order to make these meetings legal (in New
York State it takes six believers, a list of concepts and
a lawyer to start a new religion) .
As a large screen was filled with colorful images,
Leary directed his audience to concentrate on the cen
ter of each. These images ranged from pictures of
Buddah to what one might see looking at a micro
scope. He instructed us to sit with our hands in our
lap, the right hand resting in the palm of the left. We
were to concentrate on the center of the screen.
The idea of all this was to let us experience the
preliminaries of an LSD trip without benefit of the
drug. To my surprise, I found myself floating upwards
in response to the soothing voice and almost blinding
colors, only to be brought back down by the giggling of
two rather skeptical boys sitting to my right.
The contrast between the escapism advocated by
Leary and the bustling streets outside was obvious
.throughout; and this -brings me to Leary's first con
cept. . .the one I will dispute, and the one that I think
is the basic weakness of Leary's cult.
The slogan for LSD-takers is "Turn on, tune in,
drop out." In other words, involve yourself so deeply
in the taking of LSD that your are not effected or af
fected by the rest of the world.
This displeased me, as it seems that a person
with Leary's obviously superior intellect would be more
helpful commenting on the insidiousness of our society
rather than withdrawing from it completely. I feel that
the basic idea of a force (in this case LSD; that can
help one discover previously unrealized truths about
himself could be a valuable asset to our society if
handled properly that is, by making it accessible to
any person who could benefit by it. The world would
therefore be improved because people would be given
the opportunity to understand themselves. But if the
only end that is reached is for these people to withdraw
completely, where will we be?
The impression that was strongest inside of me
throughout the lecture was the feeling of love and un
derstanding among men that Leary seemingly was
taking great pains to put across. This, I believe, is the
greatest asset of the psychedelic revolution. According
to Dr. Leary, a man on an LSD trip is quite tranquil
and docile and wishes harm to come to no one. An in
fluence such as this would be invaluable today in this
world of pestilence and hate, where love is lacking.
The concept of Leary's that I wholeheartedly agree
with is one that ties in with the aforementioned idea.
The idea is simply this: that there is Buddah, or
God, m every man. Each person is seeing the world
with his own mind, from his own viewpoint, and there
fore, what he sees, he creates.
There was one more thing that particularly dis
turbed me about both Leary and the psychedelic revo
lution: it runs into considerable expense to be fully
cognizant of it. The Leary lecture itself cost $3. Inner
space, the magazine of the psychedelic community on
sale outside, cost 50 cents. Also on sale at various
places in the Village are Timothy Leary albums, books,
pamphlets, mandalas (pictures of Buddah, g a y 1 y
colored, to use as a point of concentration), and other
assorted paraphernalia, all of which costs money.
Of course it is true that Dr. Leary does have to
pay court costs to fight the charges against him (he
has been arrested several times for possession of mari
juana, a charge he still faces; contributing to the delin
quincy of a minor, of which he has been acquitted, and
possibly one or two others), and it is true that he has to
get the money somewhere. But this leaves the psy
chedelic revolution to those who can afford it, which
eliminates the so-called "lower class' which could bene
fit most from it.
The question of where things will go from here is
one that only time can answer, but the only way that
LSD can be put to beneficial use is if the facts about it
are made known through impartial studies that give
the facts honestly, and let the people decide what is
best.