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-Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. AH un
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the personal views of their contributors.
SCOTT GOODFELLOW, EDITOR
Inventory Causes Horror
The best laid plans of mice and
men frequently go awry, as hap
pened yesterday when Audit Board
Chairman Bob Travis dropped his
"bomb-shell."
Travis announced that the Audit
Board would immediately begin a
sweeping inventory of the physical
equipment of all organizations re
ceiving Student Government funds.
As can easily be imagined, re
sponse was prompt and far from
enthusiastic. Aroused organiza
tional heads began piecing
through the press release and pull
ing out such veiled innuendoes as
'There is clear evidence that some
of the equipment of Student Gov
ernment has been misused . . .
and removed from its proper place
without proper authority." And
then they found, . . to be tried
by the Honor Council."
Travis was obviously onto some
black sheep in the herd and intent
upon exploiting the discovery.
Or was he?
After 24 hours of solid intrigue,
in which person after person tried
to pry loose what were presumed
to be high priority secrets of state,
Travis released another statement.
It began in" classical understate
ment, "It seems that my state
ment of yesterday has been mis
interpreted ..." And what follows
is an elucidation of a stand which
was entirely unclear the previous
day, a stand which must be re
spected.
"Tine Audit Board has been re
quested oy the President of the
Student Body to make a review
of all Student Government organi
zations which receive Student Gov
ernment funds. The Audit Board is
not taking a negative attitude to
ward this review. Instead the Audit
Board is attempting to provide to
the President of the Student Body
and to the Student Legislature a
constructive program of how the
financing of Student Government
may be improved.
"We are attempting through our
review and hearings to offer an
improvement of the present sys
tem and in some cases to offer a
completely different plan which we
hope will provide more satisfac
tory results. We are not singling
out any organizations or persons
for criticism."
What a difference! The new
statement is beyond reproach,
representing the best of intentions.
It is only unfortunate that the real
intention of the inventory was pre
sented in the form of a palliative
to student reaction.
As was pointed out in the initial
statement, no complete inventory
has ever been taken and there is
no listing of the physical equipment
purchased with Student Govern
ment funds available. Such an in
ventory should be made with
greater frequency as a protection
to students.
M Jrx J- -agp sitmAV
Hours Changed
Duke Girls Freed
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here Credit Is Due
This editor
the Duke
To The Senior Year
Four years ago we began hold
ing our breath. The thought of the
new Student Union to be finished
last year was just that exciting.
Well, it looks like it won't be so
mbearable much longer, since con-
acting bids were accepted for
.ie new building Tuesday. Delib
erations upon which bids to ac
cept will end within a month, and
another month should bring the
breaking of ground.
Perhaps it was worth the agony,
since we will also be building a
new undergraduate library and
book exchange. And then again,
administration officials won't have
to bite their tongues when they tell
freshmen that they'll have a new
Student Union by the time they're
seniors.
ToAPO
The monumental success of the
Co-op is well known. The fact that
expenses were met and students
were given the opportunity of tre
mendous savings on book pur
chases at the same time is en
tirely sufficient as a tribute.
But did you notice something
amiss?
The APO Book Exchange did not
operate this year. And the reason
ing was obvious. Alpha Phi Omega,
the campus service fraternity, de
cided that it was silly to compete
with the Co-op.
So they joined it.
The invaluable and extensive
help given by the members of APO
was frequently overlooked .as
thanks were given to Student Gov
ernment for their Co-op.
But we won't overlook it.
To The Junior Class t
Class officers are perennially
hamstrung because their offices
have no real authority. There is no
connection between Student Gov
ernment and class offices aside
from the political parties, which
are the same.
Each class must start from
scratch with a project that will
ra se money but cost nothing, or
at least less than they plan to t
make. The money is then kept in
the class treasury as the class ad
vances through the University.
Sometimes it is used for class so
cial functions, such as dances.
Sometimes it is not.
It is therefore with pride that
we learn the Junior Class is do
nating $272 toward the building of
a playground for underprivileged
children outside Chapel Hill. The
money for the project was raised
by the recent art sale in Y Court,
according to class president Don
Johnson.
Through bumper sticker, Yack
cover, and record sales, the class
t also plans to award a trophy to
the residence college with the high
est academic average on campus.
(Editor's Note:
ial appeared in
Chronicle).
The decision to extend wom
en's dormitory closing hours
to 2 a.m. every night and the
Report of the WSGA Philoso
phy "Committee are about what
we expected. The former puts
the University among the
growing number of schools that
have liberalized their rules re
cently and will probably have
the desired effect of quieting
some of the disaffected. The
latter points the way to the
elimination of the double stan
dard and the institution of a
system which recognizes the
personal and educational val
ues of individual" responsibil
ity for making personal decis
ions. We are confident that the
Administration of the Women's
College appreciates the matur
ity of women students and the
value, of this approach. We
hope that they will not let lo
'cal, regional or any other out
side pressure influence the re
'evaluation of women's rules.
iWe are confused by the un
due concern for the safety of
1 a.m. but still safer than 4 to
6 a.m. Women's safety must
be taken into consideration but
it should never be used as an
excuse for inaction when it is
irrelevant.
The Philosophy. Committee
has presented a careful state
ment of the basis for rule
changes and has outlined a
sound approach to reevaluation
and alteration of the rules. The
Administration was well repre
sented on the Committee and
having agreed, should adopt
the report as an operative
philosophy. In the past too
many changes have been made
or rejected apparently with
out reference to a fundamen
Thursday. February 9, 1967
Draft Laws Unfair
To Professors
By JUDITH MORGAN ROTH
Instructor, Duke University
Department of Romance Languages
On January 15 The New York Times reported that
"the Columbia College faculty has voted overwhelm
ingly to request the university administration not to
retease students' class standings to Selective Service
boards." It was also reported that David B. Truman;
dean of Columbia College, called the use of grades in
determining Selective Service status "an intrusion
into the relation between students and faculty."
I would like to state that I am in agreement with
Dean Truman's statement.
The University serves the nation by educating its
people. But the learning process requires freedom.
If the idea of the University is, as I understand it, to
provide its students with the greatest possible oppor
tunity to make educated persons of themselves, and
not solely to provide industry and the professions with
replacements for their man-power needs, then the
integrity of each student must be protected. While he
confronts new ideas and reexamines old ones, the
student ought to be able to question, hesitate, and even
falter without facing the menace of a rifle.
We in the academic community know better than
anyone else that grades are relative. At any given
moment, they depend on the student's interest in the
subjects he happens to be taking, upon his interests
outside of the classroom (which may be as educational
as his courses), upon his physical and emotional well
being, in short upon a combination of factors which do
not in any absolute sense indicate the value of his
education. Yet the Selective Service system ignores
these factors. It ignores the fact that learning in the
University is much broader than the accumulation of
a grade-point average.
Can the professor, faced with the prospect of con
tributing to student draft eligibility in time of war,
evaluate him freely? Indeed does the grade an eval
uation in terms of a single course have the same
meaning, when its consequences have become relevant
to such serious issues as life and death? It may be
argued that the professor must continue to perform
his normal function. But in all fairness to his respon
. sibility as a human being, he can do that only if the
University intervenes and returns to him the liberty
of his conscience.
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who make the Htniles l&Nbihbs:
who are affected by them do
not know the philosophy be
hind them.
Students are a strange
breed. They want to know why
things are done and they want
the reasons to make sense and
be consistent. The Adminis
tration must now make clear
the philosophy that has guided
its action in the past and the
conflicts between it and the
Committee report must be re
solved. Then the task of re
evaluating women's rules can
begin. Two o'clocks are nice
but we have a long way to
go.
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.....WA'.VSS!?i
Black Comedy
G AH fie 9 MUs Homme
By NICHOLAS MEYER
"Alfie" is a very strong stuff
It is too long and it is episo
dic but it comes on like a
blow to the solar plexus. Who
then is Alfie? He is half in
dividual, half everyman, in
carnated as a tall and sexy
cockney with a heart of lead
who knows all the answers.
"If you can make a mar
ried woman laugh,"' he tells
the audience, "You're half
way home. " And then he
proceeds to prove it. Alfie
poes through a series of af
fairs, giving the audience a
textbooklike set of instructions
on How to Live Without Get
ting Hurt. Yes, he knows all
the answers. Don't lead with
your chin and you never get
socked in the jaw. And it seem
.to work until. . .
Michael Caine (who seems to
be everywhere like Santa
Claus), plays the cold-blooded
seducer of unattractive wo
men and makes Alfie his great
est screen performance to
date.
Mr. Caine bears certain pe
culiar resemblences to Sir Lau
rence Olivier. Like Olivier, he
has (or can have) eye-lids that
drooD half closed and stare
fixedly in a glazed fashion like
a sleepy but dangerous cat.
This exoressiori is to be seen
quite clearly during the fre
quent monologues Alfie deliv
ers directly to the camera, ex
actly as Laurence Olivier did
in "Richard m" and with the
same effect of utter heartless
ness. Alfie goes through life run
ning. He runs very graceful
ly and never looks awkward
in his flight, but fleeing he is
and from something he will
never excape. A man must
commit himself to something,
sometime. At some point in his
life he has got to take a
chance and lead with his chin.
For although you can go
through life avoiding involve
ment and pain, you also avoid
the pleasures to be had from
it, and without either, life be
comes a meaningless hollow
thing. A small point, you may
say, perhaps even an obvious
one, but one worth writing and
acting about. In this case it
has been handled magnificently.
Michael Caine has plenty of
help. In the first place he is
back-stopped (and almost out
performed in some sequences)
by a top-notch gallery of ac
tresses, including Millicent
Martin, Julia Foster, Jane
Asher, Shirley Anne Field,
Eleanor Bron (from "Help")
Shelly Winters and especially
by Vivien Merchant, whose
protrayal is absolutely sensa
tional as a shy unwilling
adultress. The screenplay is
Bill Naughton's adaptation of
his own London hit play
(which starred Terrence
Stamp) and the able direction
with a black sense of come
dy is by Lewis Gilbert.
It is too long and the epi
sodic nature, although intrin
sic, is also a weakness. Nev
ertheless, "Alfie" will spell
bind, move and maybe even
hurt, but it's the kind of pain
that is cruel only to be kind,
obviously made by people who
know that no one has all the
answers and that sometimes
you just have to stick out that
chin. They have and it's paid
off in full.
- By MARLENE NADLE
The Committee for the Abolition of the Draft was
hard at work in the basement beneath a gift shop
full of shocking pink potholders. The sound of a dedi
cated typewriter drifted through the dark curtains,
up the 10 iron steps, mixed with the noise of traffic
on West 86th Street.
Inside, the mimeograph machine was being man
ned. Members with the glazed stare that comes after
addressing the 94th envelope sat around a long table
decorated with a copy of I, F. Stone's Weekly.
They were young only a few past the magic age
30. They were black and white. From ink stains to
issue they seemed to qualify for the New York Left.
Yet they were members of the New York Right. Most
of the earnest types in that basement made Barry
Goldwater seem like a liberal. They were the young
radicals determined to reshape the whole society. They
wanted to abolish not only the draft, but all welfare
programs and the income tax. They wanted to do away
with most government. Their goal: a completely free
and rational society.
The radicals of the right and the radicals of the
left may start from opposite extremes, but they fre
quently come to the same place.
For the Individual
The New Right's brand of anarchism, like that of
the New Left, is a reaction against the manipulation
of the individual without his consent. The New Right
sees the draft as another attempt by government to
impose its will on the individual and violate his free
dom of choice.
"The draft," said committee chairman David Daw
son in a style that would not be out of place at the
Free University, "is not only unconstitutional, it is
feudal, unfair, unequal, unjust, ineffective, inequit
able, totalitarian, tribal, and barbaric! It is the most
evil in a host of evils. It denies the individual his
right to life."
Dawson, a Steve Allen type with horn rims and
wry humor, has spent many hours on campuses speak
ing agamst the draft. He is currently writing a book
on the subject. Along with the committee he is en
gaged m a publicity and educational campaign in sup
port of the Katz (v. USA) challenge to the draft which
is now m the courts. Plans are also being made to hold
a conference in Washington to attempt to establish a
national organization. Dawson, in fact, was dictating
a letter on the subject during the interview.
Words, Words
i 1?eS,! dicals their opposite numbers on the
left, don t like to be pigeon-holed. Dawson spent con
siderable time label-dodging.
'fund right are meaningless designations," he
said. Both go full circle and shake hands with totali
tarianism. Liberals and conservatives show signs of
justifying force, either legislative or physical, against
other people's rights in order to achieve their own ends,
and we are opposed to that."
c? 6 naUy affered a ta for group. "If you
must call us something, say we are 'individualists'
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