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" "w Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Tuesday, September 27, 1958 :Im Q Joseph Kraft xcuse Me Could I Use Your Bathing Facilities? U. S. Must Aid E. Afrieam Nations Do you take showers? '- Do you take showers in your residence hall? Do you take showers on the floor on which you live in your residence hall? Not if you live on r the first floor in lower quad. We were shocked recently Lewis, Stacy, Aycock and Graham Residence Halls have no first floor showers. These residence halls, we learned, were constructed with bathing facilities for first - floor residents located in the base ments. Some years ago the stu dents there requested that the basement shower rooms be turn ed into game rooms with vending machines and trunk storage space. When this was done, the sec ond floor showers in these resi dence halls were enlarged to make room for f- the downstairs bathers. ' This seems to us a rather sad situation. After hearing all the de bate over the 1966 Civil Rights Bill, which would have made ade quate housing a reality for a large portion of our population now living in sub-standard dwell ings, we look out our own back door and find nearly 200 men hik ing up a set of stairs every morn ing to share their neighbors' bath water. ; This should be corrected im mediately. It would involve the sacrifice of one bedroom on each of the floors and a few dollars. The rooms-hould be no problem. We heard the housing office an nounce with pride just last week that for the first time in a good many , years, there ,is no housing jiorfcage,, no waiting, list, for rooms this fall. : - J v In fact, there are vacancies on campus now. ' As for the money, a University .which deals, with a budget of mil lions should,,-be able to provide 'adequate bathing facilities. Almost as appalling as the sit uation itself is the fact that it has existed for 35 years seemingly un noticed. No one in Student Gov ernment knew about it; no one on the Campus Orientation Commit tee knew about it; Dean of Stu dent Affairs C. 0. Cathey told the DTH he had only recently learned that these floors had no showers. This points up the great need for student representation on ad visory committees which oversee such affairs. Arid in this case, it points up the need for an advis ory committee. ,:. Although one might s think in ternal residence hall maintenance would come under the jurisdiction of the Building and Grounds Com mittee, this is not the case. Prof. Sterling .Stoudemire, chairman of this committee told us all internal maintenance rec ommendations are made by the Buildings Department and the dean of student affairs. Dean Cathey told us this was' the re sponsibility of the business office, primarily John S. Bennett. Bennett passed the buck no farther, This is his job, but the situation has existed for 35 years and no one has said 'anything to him about it needing change, he said. Of course no one has Said any thing, about it. No one has known about it except the students living in lower quad. Whom would they tell?; Until student representation is effected on committees in all such vital areas, needs of the stu dents Will continue to go unheard and unmet. ' The administration has been most ; cooperative with the stu dents, in accepting representatives . to; such bodies as the .Traffic and . Safety i Committee, si. Scholarship' Committee, Campus Stores Com mittee and the Chancellor's Com mittee on Teaching and Curricu lum, f We would like to ..see this courtesy extended into the area of student housing. . , i Superficially the assassina tion of Prime Minister Hen drik F. Verwoerd of South Africa looks to be a random act, senseless in genesis and without general significance. In fact, the killing has a deep inner logic. It underlines, as does, by no coincidence, the meeting of commonwealth countries in London, the desperate choices now shaping up in the matter of African race relations. And it is against that background that the United States should be thinking about the African role, so much avoided in the last few years, which it must begin to play again. Crudely stated , the race problem in Africa is the problem of relations between a majority of poor and back ward blacks and a minority of dynamic whites. Two differ ent approaches to the prob lem present themselves. First, there is the approach of the territories, south of the Zambesi River - Portuguese Africa, Southern Rhodesia and the Union of South Africa. Here the whites have fortified their economic advantages by authoritarian regimes that have as their chief purpose the exclusion of the black majority from even a gradual approach to political power. ; Secondly, there is the ap proach of the East African countries Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya. These countries are examples of multi-racial communities in action. The whites have re tained their economic advan tages while political power has passed slowly; and in dem ocratic fashion, to black re gimes. As between these two pat terns, there is, if only on prac tical grounds, no real choice. The maintenance of white supremacy generates mani fest inhumanities, patterns of rigid constraint, accretion of power to irresponsible police types, and tension among rac ial groups. Not surprisingly, regimes based on racial supremacy however tough they may ap pear from the outside, have no organic strength. They are so stiff and tense that they can be toppled , by a single crazy act. And the lesson of the Verwoerd assassination is the vulnerability of regimes based 'It's easier than walking upstairs, already!' Words Of Warning Revisited ll o i " ' vi K t "... -!---. T4 PPM Tfif? M rm 77 77 7T 7TV T IT T t Despite what some people i would have us believe, the use of stimulant drugs is no new prob lem at UNC. Nor is it a problem of which r our administration has not been aware. ; Thumbing through a 1962 bound edition of The Daily Tar Heel yesterday, we noticed a story headed, "Hedgepeth Warns Against Student Use of 'Pep Pills.' " i; Dean of Men William G. Long was quoted in this story as saying, "Pep pills are a serious problem which is complicated by the ignor ance most people have of the harmful effects brought about by these drugs." He went on to rec ommend that the best way to com bat this menace is for students to be aware of the situation and to keep away from any product sold under a prescription which had riot been meant for him. ;i With the recent suspension of eight UNC students for the use of stimulant drugs, the administra tion expressed its intentions of providing, in cooperation with the Department of Pathology, inform ative material concerning the pos sible harmful effects of such drugs. I So history repeats itself. This spme intention was expressed this very date four years ago. But for some reason, in the past two or three years, no one has gotten the word. I' We hope the informative cam- Today's Thought I Truth is our greatest virtue preserve it. Mark Twain paign is more extensive this time. Dex .will probably never-cease to be available neither snould the word of warning. 74 Years of Editorial Freedom I Fred Thomas, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Scott Goodfellow, Managing Ed. John Greenbacker ... Assoc. Ed. Kerry Sipe Feature Editor Bill Amlong ... News Editor Ernest Robl .. Asst. News Editor Sandy Treadwell Sport&sEditor Bob Orr . Asst. Sports Editor Jock Lauterer : Photo Editor Steve Bennett, Lytt Stamps, Lynn Harvel, Judy Sipe, Don Campbell, Peytie Fearrington - . Staff Writers Drummond Bell, Owen Davis, Bill Hass, Joey Leigh . . - : Sports Writers Jeff MacNelly .Sports Cartoonist Bruce Strauch .... Ed. Cartoonist John Askew ; Ad. Mgr. 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. Offices on the second floor of Gra ham Memorial. Telephone numbers: editorial, sports, news 933-1011; bus iness, circulation, advertising 933 1163. Address: Box 1083, Chapel Hill, N. C. 27514. 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. The Associated Press is entitled ex clusively to the use for republication of all local news printed in this news paper as well as all AP news dis patches. . From the Amhurst Student By STEVE RICHMAN With the end of the , four major party conventions, New York voters are faced with the monumental task of de ciding which of the four can didates for governor they dis like least. It's proving a tough choice. Governor Rockefeller has gained a number of ene mies during his eight years in office. His wife Happy has made rural upstate voters un happy, and as her current pregnancy and the campaign grow older she will dis satisfy them even more. The governor himself has raised taxes to support new state programs after prom ising in his 1962 campaign against Bob Morgenthau that increased taxes were out of the question. The result of these and many more liabilities is that the old Rocky handshake, backslap and grin no longer wow state voters who tend to protect their wallets with their hands while keeping their eyes glued to the can didate's wife. Rockefeller's performance in recent state popularity polls has been hor rendous, showing him to ap peal favorably to a mere quarter of New York's voters. Thus New York Democrats have been confronted with a grand opportunity to win their second gubernatorial term in twenty - five years As with their Morgenthau campaign in 1962, they seem to be doing their best to lose. First, they staged a lack luster pre - convention cam paign in which Senator Bobby Kennedy seemed likely to play kingmaker. However, New York City Council Presi dent Frank O'Conner seized a decisive lead, mainly because of the inept performances of his three major opponents, Eugene Nickerson, Howard Samuels, and Franklin D Roosevelt, Jr. ; and King Bobby was left crownless in Washington. The only fire of the p re convention campaign came when Roosevelt charged that O'Cdhner's impending nomina tion had been the result of a deal with Brooklyn boss Stanley Steingut and Bronx boss Charlie Buckley. The deal, so FDR Jr. said, involved O'Conner taking second place on the Abe Beame mayoralty ticket against John Lindsay in 1965 in exchange for Buckley Steingut backing for Governor in 1966. The Roosevelt charges prob ably have an element of truth to them, but such deals have been part and parcel of state and national politics for years. John F. Kennedy owed much thanks to Charlie Buckley for gaining him New York's votes at the Democratic convention of 1960. FDR Sr. never ostracized bosses, even ones from the Bronx, during his Presiden tial tenure, and FDR Jr. didn't hesitate to deal with a big bad boss when he served as legal advisor to Dominican dictator Trujillo during the nineteen fifties. Nevertheless, the moral cru sade against the bosses con tinues. After succeeding in convincing only a handful of convention delegates that he was tthe man for the job, FDR Jr. withdrew from the Democratic race and accepted the Liberal Party designation for Governor. The two make strange but comic bedfellows. For a re form, clean - government can didate, FDR Jr. has an un usual background. (In addition to his sterling services for Generalissimo Trujillo, he compiled one of the House of Representatives' worst absen tee records during terms of the late forties and fifties. Still the Liberal Party has managed to swallow Roose velt, and his name will pro vide them with a large num ber of votes by appealing to liberal memories if not ' lib eral realities. Democrat O'Conner is a likeable candidate, if not an impressive one. He was a competent, unspectacu lar Queens District Attorney for several terms, and this is listed as his main political qualification. 1 The fourth candidate," up state Conservative professor Paul Adams can be dismissed with a few details. He has a distinctive mustache, but' is politically unknown. His 'plat form calls for the cutback 'of almost all the progressive pro grams which progressive gov ernors have instituted in the past forty years, and he will gain hundreds of thousands of votes from fellow rightwing travelers. Thus, New Yorkers will be watching this year's campaign with candidate de ficiencies more in mind than candidate attributes. So far the deficiencies have continu ed to prevail. Rockefeller, a good governor and a cham pion of the moderate Repub lican philosophy, has de-emphasized his achievements and stressed the Roosevelt inspired "bossism" issue which previously helped Roc ky gain the governorship in 1958 and 1962. The issue seems worn-outin this election. O'Conner gave an anemic convention accept ance speech and has yet to say or do anything of note. Roosevelt continues to adver tise the fact that he is a Roosevelt and Adams con tinues to advertise nothing. In spite of its candidates liabilities, the campaign looms as an interesting one. A t least it may prove that O'Con nor can take on a Rockfeller, a Roosevelt and an Adams at the same time and beat all three. on racial principles. The kill ing traces on the wall hand writing that says: "sooner or later. . Outsiders, in these circum stances, can only seek to pro mote a smooth transition from racial to multi-racial commu nities. To that end, the chief outsider, Britain, has through the commonwealth sought to act as a bridge between the countries south of the Zam besi and the East Africans. The United States, by moving to foster better economic con ditions in both areas, has backed up Britain. But it is now apparent that, this even-handed policy has failed. The commonwalth is splitting apart because it has done nothing to arrest the ef fort of the whites of Southern Rhodesia to establish their political supremacy in per petuity. As to prosperity fed by American investment, it has yielded in the Union of South Africa not an easing of tension but a tightening of racial restrictions. The appropriate reaction to this failure is to move toward a policy. that openly discrimi nates in favor of the multi racial communities in East Africa. As a first step in that direction, this country should David Rothman begin to disengage south of the Zambesi. Private invest ment there should now be dis couraged. If only to get the message across even more strongly, no opportunity should be lost to vote against tne regimes of Souta Arrica, Southern Rhodesia and Portu guese Africa at the United Nations. More important, the United States should now move ac tively much more actively than it has to date to give economic support to the multi-racial regimes in Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Ken ya. This assistance should con centrate on projects that pro mote, regional cohesion not ably transportation. And, of course, it should be worked out jointly with other interest ed nations, notably Britain and Canada. The Central African fact, in sum, is that extending the hand of friendship to the white regimes does not im prove racial conditions Con centrating on the multi-racial communities, making them work, offers the only hope for progress. Even then, it is not clear that progress can come fast enough to avoid a terrible racial massacre. Salacious Novel Creates Unrest After reviewing Richard Meade's novel, "Sum mer Always Ends," I received hundreds of telephone calls from fellow UNC students, each of whom asked the same question: "Where can I buy the book?" Unsuccessfully, I tried to convince the callers that I did not know that a journalism professor had lent me the book after suggesting with a mischievous smile that I review it for the DTH. The callers were just as eager to answer ques tions as they were to ask them. For instance, nearly everybody thought he could identify persons on which the book (which has a Chapel Hill setting) was based. Here, then, are some, conjectures about Jordan, who was "beautiful, and untamed" and "had her own ideas about what, she wanted and drank to forget them": : ; : ; " S:. . "The author must have been describing my English teacher." "I think Jordan's one of the serving women in Lenoir Hall." "Ive seen her working in the Dean of Women's office." Declared one coed: "Fifty sex fiends I mean Carolina Gentlemen have asked me for dates since your book review appeared. Please tell the author, though, that I don't drink." - Richard Meade also wrote about Jud "the handsome, verile B.M.O.C. who always got too much of everything"; so, naturally, I received calls from the fraternity district and from all the members of the UNC football team. In fact, by my latest count, at least 10,000 UNC students have contacted me concerning this charac ter. All claim to be Jud. You'd think that most people featured in a sex ridden paperback would be offended, but not in this case. Honest! The only unfriendly calls I got were from red-headed coeds who violently denounced me for .speculating that the redhead on the cover isn't Jud's true love. In Let ters Bob Orr's Article Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: I couldn't agree with Bob Orr more about the Thursday, however, he made a reference to only a mm IXLv frateralties. do not cheer. So TtL trJ , 11 games' etc- can hard'y Wamed She s' even toey are larw! bePirU somewher m a school this arge, we just need something to set it off. Possibly if Chancellor Sitterson, Dean Long and the rest of tte faculty would support the athletic teanTs puMcly this would be enough of a spark to get us rolling Something drastic is needed. g Clint Frank Delta Kappa Epsilon Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Drawafr by Bb 0rr m Thursday's Uiti was m extremely poor taste it and rate,rnities here have no school spir it and that they could care less about the success fnt N th nal1 'Tf Parti6S beinS ant. Nothing could be further from the truth There are a number of men on the football team and tte cheerleaders squad from fraternities. One must also DXparattderaternUieS' PartidpaUn in " How can Orr justify his contentions? Henry Hobson III 1
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