In Our .Opinion ...
Carolina Gentlemen, Girl
unting Begins At Home
'Let's Hope We Don't Have Anyone Like That Wise
Guy Last Year Who Asked What The Issues Were.'
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Some weeks ago The Daily Ta
Heel published an article compil
ed by a writer for the Winston
Salem Journal concerning women
students' opinions of men on the
various college campuses around
the state. This article was follow
ed recently by one giving the
men's views of the women.
After this second article we
were approached by a UNC coed
who had written a letter to the
editor concerning an implication
within the article. For obvious
reasons this girl did not want her
name to appear on the letter.
It is this newspaper's policy not
to print any unsigned letters. How
ever, we were quite interested in
the issue she raised. Asking
around among several other resi
dence hall women, we discovered
her case to be a legitimate one
indeed.
It is our decision to print the
following opinion as our own, bear
ing in mind that only a woman
student could know enough about
the situation to tell the story. We
wish to make it clear that this is
not an indication that we will, in
the future, part from our policy
concerning the printing of names
with all letters, regardless of the
cause involved:
Inherent in the story discussing
boys' views of the Carolina coed is
a male attitude which, although
unfounded, runs rampant on the
UNC campus.
Ask any male how the Caro
lina coed fates date-wise and
you're bound to get the answer,
"With so many guys and so few
girls around, she's sure to do
well!"
Sadly enougbKJhisis.iiot;:true.
Despite the lopsided boy-girl ratio,
the girls'-"dorms "are 'filled on
weekends. Every Friday, Satur
aay ana bunday night, more than
half the UNC women sit home, not
by choice but by necessity.
While the boys complain that
there are no girls to date, the
girls wait anxiously by the hall
phones waiting for an invitation
that more often than not never
comes. These girls "sitting home"
are not by any means a minority
group or an undesirable few. They
are a majority of girls, attractive,
personable, anxious to have fun,
yet undated because of a popular
misconception.
Homecoming is a tragic exam
ple of this. At present many girls
do not have dates for this big col
lege weekend.
Why? Because boys, wanting to
go out and assuming that all UNC
girls are already dated, are Im
porting girls from other campus
es. How very nice for the Greens
boro girls and sad for the 45 to 50
per cent of UNC girls who remain
without a date.
The question is always asked:
"Why did this idea of the UNC
girl always having a date arise if
there is no basis for it?"
The answer is simple. A very
few years back, the now fallacious
situation was real. At that time,
UNC was, for all practical pur
poses, a boys' school, and the few
women students did have their
choice of dates.
But with the increased enroll
ment of female students, this "se
lective dating" is not possible for
the coed. The coed now worries
not whether she can get a date
she really likes, but, instead,
whether she can get a date at all.
The present situation, if not so
ridiculous, would be pitiful. Boys
want dates, and complain that they
have to look elsewhere to find
them. Freshmen men, especially,
have a defeatist attitude: "How
can I get a; date? I don't have. . a
car and can't compare to the
-'wheeled' uppefclassmen."
Yet despite the clamoring, the
Carolina coed is sitting home.
Surely the idea that a male
cannot get a date should be recog.
nized as false.
Not Horsin' Around
In the midst of all the talk about
academic reform and curriculum
changes to better meet the needs
and desires of students, we were
interested to learn of a new course
being offered at the University of
Arizona.
Instructor Zip Peterson is
teaching a non-credit basic course
in the art of shoeing horses.
Peterson, a local blacksmith
farrier in professional terminology
who specializes in shoeing gait
ed horses and in hoof therapy,
completed his work in farrier
training at Michigan State Univer
sity. He will cover the structure,
care and proper maintenance of
the animal's hoof.
He has encountered some mild
Issues From Back Issues
(Issues that made the news fa The
Daily Tar Heel on this date five, 10,
and 15 years ago. )
Oct. 19, 1961
In a bitterly fought contest marked
by rough play and sloppy ball control,
Carolina's freshman soccer squad saw
a 3-1 halftime lead go by the boards
as it bowed 6-5 to the University of Vir
ginia at Charlottesville.
Oct. 19, 1S58
The Student Legislature last night
commended the Executive Committee
of the Board of Trustees for its nomi
nation of William C. Friday for Con
solidated University president.
Oct. 19, 1SS1
Violation of the Honor Code charges
for "lying"- brought against Student
President Henry Bowers; Rolfe Neill,'
and Mac White, two student journalists
formerly associated with" The Daily Tar
Heel, were dismissed with no decision
by the Men's Council last night for lack
of positive evidence.
difficulty. Horses' hooves are in
abundant supply. But there's some
problem in finding freezers in
which to store them.
Then too, his students can't
quite get used to carrying an an
vil to class.
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 Orr 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
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In 2052
Gettysburg Addlres
By ROBERT EWEGEN
(As presented by Little Boy
Johnson, president of the Unit
ed States and grandson of a
former President whom we all
know and love. The address
was delivered at the dedica
tion of the American mili-
tary cemetery "Gettysburg
East," outside of Saigon in the
year 2052.)
Mah fellow Americans:
Foah' score and seven yeahs
ago, my grandfather brought
forth upon this continent of
.Asia a new political concept,
conceived in expediency and
dedicated to the proposition
that we are better dead than
red.
Now we are engaged in a
Great Society (oops, I mean
a Great Civil War), and for
that matter have been engag
ed in that Great Civil War for
four score and seven years
now, testing whether that con
cept of a permanent American
military presence in Asia or
rny concept so ill - conceived
and so ineptly executed, can
long endure.
We are met on a great bat
tlefield of that war, a bat
tlefield where General Ky was
overthrown by General Hee,
where General Hee was over
thrown by General Me, where
General Me was overthrown
by General Wee, where Gen
eral Wee was overthrown by
General Gee, and so forth
through the 56 different coups
that finally culminated last,
spring in General Flea's gov
ernment, which we are now
convinced is in a position to
bring to this nation the politi
cal stability that is so necess
ary if we are to begin to ef
fectively roll back the aggres
sion from the north.
Excuse me folks, I just re
ceived an urgent note. (Oh- no,
not again.) Hrrumph. What
I meant was the 57 coups '
which , finally v culminated . in
General She's coup three min
utes ago which we are fin
ally convinced is in a posi
tion to at last offer this na
tion the political stability that
is. . . .
Hmmrph. Be that as it may.
We have come to dedicate this
battlefield as a fitting me
morial to the light to mod
erate losses that our forces
have sustained over the past
87 years so that my grand
father and his successors
could test the theory that the
way to bring Hanoi to the
peace table was to escalate
further.
It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this,
. and anyone who thinks oth
erwise is a nervous nellie and
probably a traitor besides and
simply helping to prolong the
war.
The world will long note and
long remember what we did
here, porably because we will
still be long doing it, but the
world will probably never un
derstand why we did it.
And frankly, I'm fed up with
this kind of idiotic question
ing emanating from the capi
tals of the world over the last
nine decades! I don't care
why we are here! The point
is we are here and its too
late to pull-out how! We -are
going to stay here! We are go
ing to escalate! This unpat
riotic practice of deferring
grandfathers has to stop so
that we can build up our troop
commitment to 68,000,000 men.
Only then we will have an
adequate strength ratio of 84
to 1 necessary to put down this
insurrection.
And as long as I am presi
dent, mah fellow Americans,
I promise you this: we shall
not withdraw, I promise that
this nation, under me, shall
have a new birth of conformi
ty (boy will we shut up those
peaceniks) and that govern
ment of consensus, by mani
pulation for the sake of sav-
ing face shall not perish from
the earth, although admitted
ly the population might.
The University Of Texas
Begins Education Reform
(Editor's note The fol
lowing editorial from The Dai
ly Texan describes a plan for
education reform at the Uni
versity of Texas.)
Educational resources are
distributed poorly in Texas,
UST ethods of Providing
a better education to student!
throughout Texas is evolving.
One of the most comprehen
sive answers to the problem
uca?onal television.
Through educational televi
sion, quality teachers wm be
ab e to provide a better edu
t0 quantities of stud
7 SStout the state.
brt Siy Council meeting
mittee on educational televis-
SL? ,d0pted- Dr' Stanley
uonner, chairman of the Del
?onrtrae of Radio - Televi
Si r FUm' headed Spe
cial Committee to Study Tel
made1 S which had
made the recommendations.
The special committee also
recommended constriction
and operation of a college Tt
the university m whichg
dents would be taught by edu
cational television. This col
lege would provide a model
from which a state network
of educational television could
be developed.
It is on the state level, how
ever, where educational tele
vision probably would have its
greatest impact. Junior col
leges can neither secure nor
afford the best teachers. With
a statewide television sys
tem instruction and education
from the best teachers from
different schools in the state,
such as the University, could
provide the best overall edu
cation available to the mass
es. "Team teaching" also could
be broadcast whereby the
different professors would
teach the part of a course in
which they are most capable.
For instance, in an American
history course, a professor at
the university could lecture on
the New Deal while a pro
fessor at the University of
Houston could lecture on the
Civil War.
Such a system has other ad-
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vantages. Instructors at small
er schools (and at the uni
versity) would have more
time with their students. The
lecturer on television would
deliver his talk only once as
it could be taped on film. Stu,
dents at junior colleges would
be able to hold seminars and
discussion groups.
Another significant develop
ment of a state educational
television network would be
transmission of information.
Computer data could be
transmitted on the television
system, thus allowing all
schools to use a central fa
cility. Libraries also are de
veloping similar systems
whereby text materials could
be transmitted through such
a network.
A hard look at teaching me
thods is needed before a state
network of educational tele
vision is begun. Fortunately,
the Texas Coordinating Board
for Higher Education has or
dered several studies in this
field.
The problem of mass edu
cation is not only a state prob
lem; it is a national problem.
Educational television, we
feel, will help lessen the prob
lem of providing quality edu
cation to the masses. The sig
nificant factor is that educa
tors are looking at the problem
to see what can be done.
The technology exists now; it
needs only to be applied to
education.
Student Flees To
Avoid Uf 'S. Draft
(Editor's note The following article is the first of
a two - part series on students who have gone to
Canada to avoid the draft. Mr. Rapoport is a colum
7iist for the Collegiate Press Service.)
By ROGER RAPOPORT :
TORONTO This month 49,200 men will be in
ducted into the U. S. armed forces. Expatriate Bob
Thomas will not be among tham.
It's not that Bob isn't eligible he's been 1-A for
the past five months. Rather, he has left his native
Indiana to live here in Canada where U. S. draft laws
da not apply.
Bob (not his real name) is one of a growing num
ber of Americans emigrating to Canada to escape
the draft.
Bob, a soft - spoken 22-y ear-old, introduces him
self as "your friendly neighborhood draft dodger" to
preserve anonymity.
A cum laude English graduate of a top Ivy Lea
. gue school last June, he returned home to find 1-A.
greetings from his local draft board. :
Bob had no intention of following in the footsteps:
of his 18 - year - old brother who joined the Air Force
in April. ("My brother and I gave up discussing Viet:
Nam, it's useless.")
He v carefully weighed the alternative methods of;
avoiding the draft. To begin with, Bob is not a paci
fist or conscientious objector. "Besides," he explains,'
"I wouldn't take CO. status because it's demean
ing. I have no intention of co-operating with the mili
tary system in any way."
The other route was jail up to five yers and $10,
000 for failing to report for indcution. "But that
wouldn't do anyone any good. And I see no reason
to make a martyr of myself."
So he decided the only way out was North. He tolj
his father who was dismayed and his mother who
"cried a lot." When he arrived here in June, Tony;
Hyde of the Student Union for Peace Action, a Cana-)
aian amiiate oi Muaents for a Democratic Society,
found him a place to stay. To quality for landed immi- E
grant status and legally remain in Canada he took s
a job at the University of Toronto library. J
Bob finds Canada "far more relaxed and less hys-:
terical" than the U. S. Canada has no draft. :
"Any government that tried to start the draft?
again would get thrown out of office," explains Tony?
Hyde. r
He says his fellow employes unanimously sup
port his reasons for moving to Canada. In his spare
time he reads, writes poetry, does watercolors, and
generally leads a tranquil existence.
Except Jor the. fact that he can never return to
the United States again (where he would face that
$10,000 'fine anid'iive i-years"m gail his1 life is frW of
restrictions. A long --standing -pact between the U. S.
and Candian governments porhibits his extradition.
"From up here," says Bob, "America really looks
like it's going nuts." In fact he goes so far as to
claim that the United States is "on its way to a col
lective nervous breakdown."
An armchair analyst, he gives half a dozen rea
sons for projecting a national crackup. "For one
thing, the right-wing militaristic mentality that got
us into Viet Nam is going to take control of the coun
try. Sheer race hatred will result in constant pre
mediated violence between the races within three
years.
Viet Nam is going to get worse, and in three or
four years we will be doing the same thing some:
place else there are four or five major candi
dates. Inflation will rock the ecomic structure.
"The psychedelic thing has already won. As Ti
mothy Leary says, too many people have already
tried it and liked it. And the gap between the gen
erations will widen. The old people won't be able to
understand our generaton at all. "
Bob articulates his dire prophecy with a great
deal of pride and was somewhat miffed to discover
that Newsweek reduced it all to one sentence in a
recent article on draft dodgers. "That reporter just
didn't understand. The Newsweek guy kept asking
me if I would have fought in World War II. I prob
bably would have but it's a totally irrelevant
question. I'm not concerned about history. I'm just
against the American role in Viet Nam."
Bob has high hopes of organizing his fellow Amer
icans. He is currently starting an expatriate news
letter. But ther may be some difficulty writing edi
torials, for the draft dodgers are far from a like -minded
lot.
According to Tony Hyde, "Bob is not a typical
draft dodger. In fact, I don't think there is any such
thing. We're finding a lot of political types but for-:
many people, coming up here is their first political:
act. We even had a right - wing type from Arizona'
come up recently. He was sort of a Jeffersonian -:!
type Democrat., who didn't want to fight in Viet Nam. -j
His parents even agreed." .1
Indeed Bob and his draft-dodging friends dis- !
agree strongly on some matters. For example, one !
argument flared in a discussion between Bob and his
fellow expatriate Allan, a political science doctoral''
candidate at the University of Toronto.
"If I were North Vietnamese, I wouldn't fight for
Ho Chi Minn," said Allan. "I don't think he is a lot':
better than General Ky. The whole war is a mean
ingless cause on both sides."
Still, Bob contends that his decision to move to
Canada was not political.
"Personal freedom is the reason I came up here. "
I want to have the right to say no to people. I've'
got better things to do than be used like a robot - like
killer dog in the Army. No one has the right to tell:
me to go drop mapalm on people. I want the right :
to run my own life." :