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In Our Opinion s& .-Kiss; a - . -srfS.. Q & O t Will Take Money To Save oney; SL Must Give Its Help (Final in a series of editorials concerning the increasing student financial burden at UNC.) In two previous editorials we have discussed several areas in which the students' pocket books are being drained and we have given our reasons for believing that the state taxpayers should be willing, indeed should be anxious, to bear their fair share of the cost of operating the University. It appears now that what re mains to be done is to find a means of convincing the taxpayers and more importantly the legislators of our point of view. At this juncture, we are en couraged to note the work which the State Affairs Committee of Student Government has been do ing since the beginning of this school year. Contrary to the image of SG committees that all too many stu dents have, this committee has been meeting at least three hours every week, and members have put in countless hours in research concerning ways through which they can most effectively convey to the state's citizens a favorable Jmage of the University. Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitter son devoted one afternoon an afternoon when he had other bus iness pressing to a State Affairs Committee meeting where he heard the committee's plans and offered some of his own sugges tions. After the meeting, he ex pressed his optimism that the com mittee could have a very strong positive effect on those men in Ra leigh who control the purse strings to the University. Charlie Shaffer, head of the De partment of Development also has been working with this commit tee, explaining many of the Uni versity's problems from ; the ad ministrative point of view. UNC News Bureau Director Pete Ivey has been so impressed with the committee's plans that he has put his staff to work gathering pictures and written material for their public presentations. The committee plans to visit about 200 state communities es pecially in the eastern and pied mont regions and speak to civ ic clubs and PTAs. They further intend to contact personally every member of the state legislature between now and January to discuss such issues as ECC, the Speaker Ban and, pri marily, the University budget re quest. Now, the success or failure of this committee's aims rests with Student Legislature and, more spe cifically, its finance committee. When the Student Government budget was drawn up early last spring, the State Affairs Commit tee chairman had not been ap pointed. Since this position has been filled this fall and the com mittee has begun laying its ground work for the year, it has become apparent that it cannot effectively carry out its function without fi nancial assistance from Student Government. A bill has been proposed which Issues From Back Issues (Issues that made the news in The Daily Tar Heel on this date five, 10, and 15 years ago.) Oct. 18, 1961 Robert Penn Warren Jr. speaks at Hill Hall tonight at 8 at a Literary Recog nition Convention in honor of North Car olina poet Randall Jarrell. Oct. 18, 1956 The varsity soccer team's 4-1 win over the Washington and Lee Generals was a source of satisfaction for Coach Marvin Allen and his squad in more ways than one. The victory not only signified Caro lina's second straight victory this sea son in as many games, but it also was the first time a UNC soccer team has beaten Washington and Lee on Smith Field where the game was played. Oct. 18, 1951 Asserting that "education is based on religion," UNC chancellor, Robert B. House, this week advanced an eight point definition of learning. Education "runs not just from the age of 6 to 21 but from the cradle to the grave." will appropriate some $5,000 to this committee. Roughly $3,000 would be applied to the public presenta tion program travel expenses for two members for each of the 200 discussions with public groups, purchase of two slide projectors and slides, mailing expenses, tele phone, etc. The other $2,000 would cover the production of radio tapes that would be distributed through out the state. However, the proposal has not been greeted with optimism by the chairman of the Finance Commit tee. He appears to support the goals of the State Affairs Commit tee, but seems to doubt that suf ficient funds exist. Although no ex act record of how much money is presently in the general surplus is available, we understand that at an absolute minimum the fig ure is somewhere between $30,000 and $40,000. The State Affairs Com mittee's request asks for some 18 per cent of this total surplus. Ater the passage of the Speak er Ban Law in 1963, Charlotte News Associate Editor Bob Smith wrote a series of editorial analyses entitles "What's Wrong At UNC." In these articles, it was his gen eral conclusion that the University suffers because of a breakdown in communications between Chap el Hill and the General Assembly. We contend that this same breakdown that caused the hasty passage of the Gag Law is also re sponsible for the sentiment among legislators that the state should not continue bearing so great a part of the University's expenses as it has in the past. This is the gap that must be bridged if low-cost, high-quality education is to be a reality for the citizens of North Carolina. And this is the gap whose bridging is the sole purpose for the existence of the State Affairs Committee. Five thousand dollars sounds like a large amount of money to invest in a Student Government Committee. But the figure is small in comparison with the increasing financial burden that students in the future will be expected to bear if the people of the state and their representatives to the General As sembly are not shown the true nature of the University, its stu dents and its needs. If Student Legislature sees fit to approve the State Affairs Com mittee's request for funds in full, it will perform one of the most worthwhile functions in its histo ry of 40 legislative sessions. If it does not, the University and its students of tomorrow will suffer. 74 Years of Editorial Freedom 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 ... Sports Editor Bob 0rr Asst. Sports Editor Jock Lauterer Photo Editor Chuck Benner Night Editor Steve Bennett, Lytt Stamps, Lynn Harvel, Judy Sipe, Don Campbell, Cindy Borden Staff Writers Drummond Bell, Owen Davis, Bill Hass, Joey Leigh Sports Writers Jeff MacNelly ..Sports Cartoonist Bruce Strauch .... Ed. Cartoonist John Askew r 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. Post Office in . Chapel Hill, N C Subscription rates- $4. . ter- n - L semes- nJiJTirE rTar- Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co Inc sni W. Franklin & m. , 1. .M Ayl -Pi mhf.m $.wm&lB&: r Tfril Otelia Conno Mammem La I went to the exercises ce lebrating University Day at Memorial Auditorium on Wed nesday and I thought each talk was very much in keeping with the occasion. The one statement that I took away with me was, I be leive, made by the Deputy Under-secretary of the Interior that the University of North Carolina was the first Univer sity in this country , to found a school for the training and education of the common peo ple, not solely to educate the sons of the elite. That, we must admit, was a history making occasion! It is the corner stone on which democracy in this country was built. However, it is not enough to train people for a job. "The distinguishing mark of an ed cated man he can be count- David Rothman ed on to behave as a gentle man!" And that has been my job! Many girls from other sec tions of the country tell me that they have been impressed by the good manners of the male students at UNC they open doors, and show many other courtesies, in contrast to schools which they have attended elsewhere. . v - So I, feel encouraged. But every day I see that much re mains to be done before we have the "complete soul." I have corrected several about putting empty trays on other tables instead of on the racks; about taking a chair, or other things, from my tab le without asking; about blocking the isles with out stretched legs; sitting on one foot when eating, etc. I asked a girl who was sit- Kooks Are At Work On The West Coast California is to the nation what Chapel Hill is to North Carolina: a kook center. Just as this town has more nuts per square mile than any other place in the state (except, perhaps, Granite Quary if one KKK nut equals several LSD nuts)) SQ it is that California has more than any other in the nation. At this point, the resem- ' blance ends: our kooks us- ' ually move away from here after graduation (before pre sumably becoming tax - pay ing Rotary Club members), X while the ones in California frequently come there after graduation and stay to try : ovf growing the government. ! And that, my friend, is the V trouble with California. It explains why a psychia- -trie social worker in Los Angeles carefully examines each issue of a leftist news paper because so many of her patients are on the staff there- ! It explains why the citizens i LvTeXaSN Ari20na and New sleeP calmly while Califormans prepare for a Red Chinese invasion via Me- , .It explains Mario Savio's It explains Richard ("Trie ky Dick") Nixon. : J? plains "the unpreceden- keley. Uprising It explains William F Know land. It explains the leftists who applaud the Watts riots And, in the same way it explains Ronald Reagan V sue cess. , Admittedly, Ronald Reagan is not a nut. Not all his sup porters are nuts. The entire California GOP miraculously, is not nuts. ' But Ronald Reagain, as shown by his failure to repudi ate the John Birch Society en tirely, welcomes the support of nuts. The nuts, as shown by Birch statements (and financial sup port), welcome him. The California GOP, as shown by its selection of Regan as its gubernatorial candidate, wel comes the man who welcomes nuts who welcome him. Reagan (now rated by poll sters as the leading candi date) and his party tolerate nuts because they are the key to his being elected. He needs their money. He needs their votes. He needs in other words, to come out against fair hous ing and the federal spending required to elimanate poverty. He needs to satisfy the state's latent bigots who, were it not for the prosperity created by federal programs, wouldn't be rich enough to value property rights over human rights. Here in the South, bigotry is respectable in many places so long has it been part of much of the established or der. Bigotry is not limited to nuts, even in Chapel HILL. H if your neighbor hates Negroes and-or the federal govern mentyou do not consider him nuts. You know this was part But somehow you wonder why Calif ornians,. with their traditionally liberal politics and traditionally liberal do ses of sex and LSD can be so untraditionally bigoted to ward Negroes and Uncle Sam. Or are they? . Most Californians won't show themselves as bigots in November, c v v. Maybe their .present ' guber natorial favorite will improve the state's image, by losing the election. In Letter D ting on her foot in Lenoir Hall tonight, if that was the way she ate at home? She answer ed "No," but she didn't put her foot down. I told her la dies didn't sit on the foot in a restaurant. She sat on her foot until she left the hall. I would say she didn't pass the test of a lady. Some of the eating positions at Lenoir : are unbelievable. You wonder what kind .of homes ' they came from. ' ! ' Three different times I have watched a student, walking along, scraping his shoes and knocking his heels on the pave ment. I told them, "Pick up your feet, anybody would think you were a nit-wit!" I get dif ferent reactions. I have noticed fewer feet on the tables, with the shoes on, in Graham Memorial. That's good. Someone asked me what I thought of the girl's short skirts and tight trousers on the campus? I answered that I didn't object to what they wore as long as they were neat and conducted them selves properly I didn't think there was anything pret ty about the knees, but if that was what they wanted, it was all right with me. Regarding smoking and tight pants, I have just come back from my Alma Mater Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. When I was a student there many years ago, any girl caught smoking was ex pelled immediately, and it would have been worth your life to be caught in pants any where except when you were going skiing, ice - skating, snow-shoeing, etc. I the year 1966, there were ash trays in every room, and even the faculty were smok ing. Every girl I saw had on long, tight pants, or shorts, in the class room and in the cafeterias. So times do change, and so do prices! The cost at Skidmore when I was there was $700 per year. Now I was told it is over $3,000 per year and going up! The students fuss about the price of food at Lenoir in creasing, and the cost per year at the University, over $1300, which does not include food. Everything we buy now has gone up. I don't know any thing you can buy that has n't gone up. All I know is mon ey doesn't buy anthing any more! As for increase cost at UNC, I will comment on only one department that of the fac ulty. There is much compe tition for good professors. But who would want to spend four to seven years of his life under poor and dull professors? I wouldn't. If the students would com pare the cost of an education at UNC with other universi fiies throughout the nation, they would find that they , are lucky indeed! So lets face up to the facts, and give thanks that we are among the for tunate few! r. Sloane Criticizes DTH Reidsville Edits; Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: : The treatment given the Reidsville Conference by the Daily Tar Heel left this participant convinced that if faculty student relations are to be improved on this campus, the Tar Heel will have little or no part to play in me process. An interesting, and at moments, exciting, two days were editorially dismissed with a world - weary tone: which the present writer found distinctly trying. 'The value of the recent Reidsville conference is question able. ... we doubt that the weekend. . . . did much toward the accomplishment of these (the students) goals." Ho - hum. If the conference was important in theory and not just an example of Mr. Powell's "work" in the area of academic reform, then it deserved full reporting in cluding who was there, what specific topics were dis cussed, what suggestions were made, and all the rest of it. Mr. Greenbacker's almost wistful essay was all the students at large got in the way of an account of a meeting on which a very considerable amount of time and money had been spent. It is a fcar guess that nothing one half as import and in connection with the life of the University occur red that weekend and yet no detailed account of it ap peared. Sunday morning was not wasted on idle chatter about drinking as your editorial states because it was then that the group reports were heard and discussed! Even the drinking discussion had some remarkably interesting aspects (not reported). The Tar Heel regretfully concludes that nothing much will come of it. If the student opinion about such earnest efforts as this conference depends on this pa per no one can be surprised that results are nil. How can any useful developments grow where no thing is planted? Student leaders seem to play all this very close to their chests they know what went on and so do the faculty participants, but apparently these select indi viduals are to be the only ones. Several offers of assistance toward those goals which Mr. Powell keeps calling "reforms" (but which : the beleaguered faculty would like to think of as "im-: provements") were made, patterns of action suggest-: ed and much else - but it has all been swept away with the snap of Professor Koch's 4 'inevitable"! gum. I heard him make the remark and, clod that I ; am, failed to read it as a requirem fro Reidsville's hop ; -es. He was just taking a break from what wa sfor:' some of us, pretty steady hard work. ' - I wonder how many other promising activities are ' as swiftly buried in our campus press? : Joesph C. Sloane ; Department of Art: Letters The Daily Tar Heel accents all letter .uu. 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