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i Wednesday, February 8, 1967 Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL "Qttf? lailg (Mr Jfl Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. All un signed editorials are written by the editor. Letters and columns reflect only the personal views of their contributors. SCOTT GOODFELLOW, EDITOR The Automobile Woes There is an old story which be gan with two female ostriches sauntering along in the desert. Spotting two male ostriches on the horizon, they took off with the two boy ostriches in hot pursuit. Finally, seeing that they weren't going to out-distance their pursuers, one of the girl ostriches said to the other, "Let's hide." So they both stuck their heds into the sand. The male ostriches came charg ing up, looked around, and one said to the other, "Where did they go?" The example is similar to what has occurred in Chapel Hill on the problem of parking this year. Very little has been done regard ing changing our present system and likewise little has been done in opposition to the scarcity of pos itive action. - But the reasoning for little drastic change is simple. Every one is awaiting the report from the traffic flow study group en gaged at the start of this year to make recommendations on the : best methods of improvement. It is hoped that, the recommen dations will provide a basis for a lasting solution to the problem, f Certainly there are few examples of far-sighted planning in the ar chitecture field. Even Carmichael Auditorium was destined to be - booked solid weekly . during the i first year after its grand opening. And Carmichael was cited as eas ily adequate before its construc tion. Among the solutions proposed are a multi - level parking struc ture up-campus, large lots on South Campus with transportation provided onto the campus, and an all-pedestrian student body. The first two of these would require large amounts of money. This i money is not presently in existence and would call for a special means of financing. For this reason alone, the ultimate structural solution in either of these cases would have to be as lasting as 'can be imag ined. A partial parking solution is not a solution at all. Many changes have been made by the Univer sity Traffic and Safety Committee during the past year. Most of these have been, zoning changes. The Committee does not pretend to have solved the parking problem with zone-switches, but it has cer- tainly. eased a bad situation. This week we received a copy of a protest letter from an irate coed who objected to being ticket ed for parking in a "no parking" zone after she found there were no other spaces remaining. She had paid her $5 for a "C" sticker, and then found that the privilege availed her nothing. - Situations such as this will con tinue to appear until a satisfactory solution is arrived at. We can only encourage those concerned to seek the most enduring solution con ceivable when the question is fi r,Hv presented to them. Preliide ToRusli: Rush will begin Sunday, and many will encounter the fraterni ty system for the first time. The step toward joining a fra ternity (or sorority for that mat ter) is a very big one. A prospec tive rushee should .use every neans available to him to learn sbout the system, what it can mean to him, and what it means to others. An excellent opportunity for a rushee to partly fulfill this obliga tion to himself will occur tonight at 7:30 in the GM Lounge. At that time a Fraternity For um will be held at which students will have an opportunity to ques tion IFC President Lindsay Free man and other panel members on any subject which they feel is rele vant to their attitude toward fra ternities. . We urge all interested students to attend. The Lone Prowler "Who was that masked man?" "Why, that was the Lone Prow ler!" Yes, it looks like the prowler is back and up to the same old sneaky tricks. We were beginning to wonder what had become of him since his last daring escapade on October 29. " At that time the mystery prow ler put in four appearances at var ious coed residences. . Coeds throughout the campus began camping out in each other's rooms, believing that safety in numbers was the watchword. And the girls mustered weap ons kitchen utensils, knives, any thing for security. "Doors were bolted and guards were posted. But the prowler was never caught. He always managed to es cape, in the words of Police Chief William Blake, "In an undeterm ined manner." No, he never did any real harm, but he sure went to a lot of trou ble just to do nothing. Monday night, for example, he was be lieved to have concealed himself in Whitehead dormitory after doors closed at midnight. But did he wait an hour to "prowl?" Never. He ' didn't do anything noticeable until 4:20 a.m. And this is the same four hour wait he managed twice in October. 4 Our prowler is simply not the ordinary type of fellow. We must admit, hwwever, that it is very up setting to have any 'type .'of prow ler running rampant through coed residence halls at four in the morn ing. It is an outright defiance of legal and social regulations. But until he does something really wrong, our condemnations have a tinny sound. 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Scott Goodfellow, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Bill Amlong, Managing Editor John Askew Ad. Mgr. Peter Harris Associate Ed. Don Campbell News Editor Kerry Sipe ......... Feature Ed. Sandy Treadwell .. Sports Editor Bill Hass .......... Asst. Sports Ed. Jock Lauterer Photo Editor David Garvin . Night Editor Mike McGowan ... Photographer STAFF WRITERS Lytt Stamps, Ernest Robl, Steve Knowlton, Carol Wonsavage, Di-y ane Ellis, Karen Freeman, Hun ter George, Drummond Bell, Owen Davis, Joey Leigh, Dennis Sanders. CARTOONISTS Bruce Strauch, Jeff MacNelly The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, ex amination periods and vacations. Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semes ter; $8 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N. C. Pf Ob -LjBJ w (Editor's Note: This article first appear ed in the Minnesota Daily; the author is chairman of the Minnesota Committee to End the War in Vietnam.) By JAMES S. BECK During most of the Kennedy adminis tration the United States government acknowledged that indigenous national ist groups were the main antagonists of the Diem regime. Thus Pres. Kennedy stressed the advisory military role of the United States in Vietnam. But as the United States increased its military participation, the govern ment and popular press accused with increasing gusto the National Libera tion Front of being an organ of import ed communism. Meanwhile, very few people in this country were well-informed about Viet nam. The foreign press was giving a very different picture from that given by the domestic press. This led inevita bly to a concentration of disagreement with government policy among the aca demic, the politically left and the loosely-organized advocates of peace. The distribution of dissent, the one sided and unenthusiastic performance of the press, and the mendacity of the government determined the form of the anti-war movement. The movement's growth was delayed by uncertainties as sociated with the unexpected change of administration and by Johnson's decep tive statements during his campaign. But the really new element was the concerted attack upon vocal dissent by the President and his appointed officials, by the congressmen, syndicated colum ists, and editors. This was accompa nied by the use of the Subversive Ac tivities Control Act (against SNCC, Du Bois Clubs, etc.) and the Selective Serv ice ( Michigan case, among others) to harass organizations and individuals. Dissent was getting difficut. The success shows in improved (though still rather inadequate) news coverage of the war, more candid and incisive commentary in the press, more frequent expression of concern and more frequent questioning on the part of more people in seeking alternatives on behalf of more legislators and citi zens. To be sure, Johnson and the mili tary go marching on, but they are less certain of how far they can go. The trend is to look a little harder for a way out and to accept the futility and wrong ness of the expectation of military vic tory. So what now for the anti-war move ment? The horror continues in Vietnam. Opponents of U.S. policy probably are still a minority. The news is still often distorted. A broad spectrum of informa tion and interpretation is a little more accessible in the United States but still not readily available to the general pub lic. So demonstrations, marches, pick ets, leaflets must continue. Johnson has been affected by the sud , den broadening of the base of criticism and the widespread recognition of the reality of the "'credibility gap." Proba bly the next six months will be critical. If Johnson expects to win the presi dential election or even renomination in 1968, he must "win the war," as he has defined "winning," or find another way out. The anti-war movement must watch and adapt to developments, for power and votes are things Johnson un derstands even though he seems unable to understand the meaning of self-determination and the emptiness of anti communism as credo. Dull 'Champagne Complex' Leaves On-Lookers Sober By SUSAN STAPLES r Champagne Complex, a t4 semi-sophisticated three-act farce fairly brimming ith sex and psychology, has been en- ' tertaining Barn Dinner The- ' atre audiences for some time. The Raleigh-Durham version, ; however, begins a little flatly for; this originally effervescent situation comedy, and though it manages to bubble to savory second and third acts without any really spirited rapport with the obviously non-brown-bagging audience, something is lost in the strain to uncork it. The plot involves a sprightly young lady who has a pre cariously low inebriation thres hold of sixty c.c.s. of chan pagne. Her subconscious disaf fection with the grey-flanneled mama's boy who is her fiance leads to the shedding of her . clothes whenever she exceeds her - champagne limit, which occurs most frequently ' at ner engagement parties. To put an, end to this recklessness, the fiance seeks the advice of his amateur psychiatrist uncle, a professional "lay analyst," who reluctantly agrees to lok her over. Although he tries very hard to be objective, the uncle obviously likes what he sees and he soon discovers she is becoming his problem, too. Alas After several rounds of champagne and some tingl ing exposure by the vexatious ecdysiast, the uncle discovers that the , luscious tippler's stripping is simply a sub merged desire to throw off all restraints, especially her fi ance, and to find some more mature person with whom to imbibe the pleasures of ro mancenamely, the more pro fessional uncle. D oes Psych Dept. intimidate Students? In the current production, the young woman js portrayed by Anne Marie, a . pert, miss and a special delight to the male members of the audience when she reveals her problem right down to her "polka-blotted" bikini. In the first act her high-pitched voice was rather distracting, but it seemed to settle into a more natural tone as the play proceeded. All in all her performance was a creditable one. Probably the most natural portral was given by Bryan Syron in his role as the uncle. His ease and knack for making quiet understatement extreme ly amusing and his wry, bed side manner gave the play a continuity it would not other wise have had. Practically speaking, CHAM PAGNE COMPLEX quenches one's thirst for a night of en tertainment, but it leaves no lasting emotional hangover. ar naAviv. oucummi Leaves Owl Who-less (Editor's Note: This originally appeared in the Col orado State Collegian. ) Not too enthralled over the prospects of , being la bled either a hawk or a dove, one is faced with the possibility of being called anything from a scream ing eagle to a yellow-chested chicken. One humanoid bird that isn't receiving his due rec ognition these days is the familiar owl. He needs more consideration now, not because he is a symbol of wisdom, but rather because he runs around asking "Who." Also, what and why. This puzzled bird is asking many questions about everyone's favorite topic, the Viet Nam skirmish. He starts out with the scholarly, historical approach: "How the hell did we get there?" "Well, we were sort of handed this seed and a few years of poor tending turned it into a sick and ugly growth" someone an swers. Then he asks, "Why us? Why not let someone else look after it?" And he learns that it is not only us, but Australians, South Koreans, even South Viet namese. He asks when we are getting out and receives only grumbles and angry stares. Because there have been some disturbing things reported in the news, he asks a few questions about them. "Has there ever been a time when American casualties were anything but light? Is there any truth to the statements about bombing civilians?" To both of these questions he hears one answer, "Incredible." Not being entirely satisfied with these replies, the tufted inquirer focuses his attention on the home front. Being an old bird, he remembers better days and is worried about the present state of things. "Isn't it customary here," he asks "for a man to question national policy and politicians and to raise a note of dissent to things he can't personally accept without being branded as cowardly or anti-American? And isn't it possible for another man to reach a rational decision that we have moral and legal reasons for carrying out military actions in another part of the world fond for this man to support and participate in the effort without being called a guileless follower or a butcher of children?" Having addressed these questions respectively to the wrong sides, the bird is bowled over in a cross fire of shouts of "Incredible." But now his feathers are ruffled and he persists. "Do you. mean that a man. is wrong if he feels he has a strong obligation to oppose the draft and burns his draft card?" "Right," answers a 19-year-old Marine. "Do you mean that a man is wrong if he is con vinced that this is the greatest nation on earth and he is privileged to serve in her armed forces?" "Right," answers a 19-year-old pacifist. Trying to rid himself of some of the confusion, he starts asking more specific questions. "Does Gen eral Hershey have stock in some pro ball club?" he asks. Just an ardent fan, he learns. "Is this" Pat Boone who wears the white shoes the same guy who sings that song about coming back from Viet Nam and looking up the fellow who de clined to go?" "Lop, bop a loo mop," comes the reply. "And what about 'Total Victory' Spellman? Isn't he one of those people who profess to follow the Prince of Peace? " No answer. 'Lock The Windows? I'm Leaving A Ladder Outside Mine.' To the Editor: Students enrolled in Psycho logy 26 are being coerced into filling out questionnaires of a highly personal nature and al lowing, themselves to partici pate in experiments. The Psychology Department has instituted the device of a voluntary statement to be sign- ed by students in order to evade legislation passed by Congress prohibiting invasions of privacy. Participation in the experiments and the fill ing out of questionnaires are supposedly voluntary process es, yet students are only given the choice of participating or losing grade points. A memorandum of the Psy chology Department reads: "You will receive one per centage point added to your final lab grade for every hour of experimental participation, up to five hours. You can then possibly raise your grade one letter." Instructors also add N hours and percentage points for answering questionnaires. Needless to say, under these conditions, many students do not feel free to refrain from "volunteering" to reveal per sonal information or from be coming guinea pigs. Students who "volunteer" to participate in the various psy chological experiments are as- signed hours without regard to the students' convenience. Some are assigned hours on Sundays, and those whose designated experiment time , conflicts with regularly i sche duled classes are penalized by having to sacrifice grade points. Furthermore, students have to sign or refuse to sign the "volunteer statement" pro mising "to participate in psy chology experments when the opportunity arises during the present semester" without being informed of the nature of the experiments. The Psychology Department obviously should either alter the aspects of the lab dealing with experimentation and re velation of. intimate informa tion or offer some reasonable justification for not doing so. Eric Clay To the Editor: The death of Miss Jessie Reh der is a great loss to the University. Few English de partments, if any, could boast a teacher of creative writing so dedicated and influential. While her influence is perhaps greatest and most enduring on her students, it will continue to be felt in other areas as well. Miss Rehder's concern for the writing and publication of contemporary literature was celebrated. Out of it grew not only her own works, but any number of publishing projects and works by individual writ ers. That the University's tra - ditional encouragement of writing has been continued in recent years is in large part due to her guidance, sup port and unfailing good hum-, or. Russel Banks Myles Ludwig William Matthews Michael Paull Newton Smith David M. Allison Is 1 4vS2i .
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