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Sunday, October 30, 1983 Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL rim Our Opinion 'I Told You It Wouldn't Work!' Bob Wilson DTH Awards Of The Week Lizards of the Week: Awarded to the Student Party by the DTH editor; awarded to the DTH edi tor by the Student Party. Compliment of the Week: Bob Hope, who said of Carmichael Au ditorium, "I think this is a real nice garage." Prospective Buck Privates of the Week: George Hamilton and Stokley Carmichael whose Selec tive Service classification statuses are being "reviewed" for the ump teenth time. With Hamilton plead ing a hardship case and Carmich ael being opposed to the violence in Viet Nam, let's hope that, if they are drafted, they will find equally entertaining ways to dodge bullets as they have used to dodge the draft. White Man of the Week: "Col. Sharecropper," whose name ap pears on both sides of a 45 r.p.m. disc sold at the KKK booth at the N. C. State Fair last week. The two songs are dubbed, "Segrega tion Wagon" and "Move Them Niggers North." Lover of the Week: Pearl Choate, 205-pound ex-convict, who kidnapped a 95-year-old million aire invalid and married him. She lists her occupation as "compan ion to the elderly." This is her sev enth marriage. That's companion ship! Pride of the Pigskin Season: UNC Tarheel football eleven who snared 40 square inches of picture space and 11 lines of type in the current issue of Time magazine just for losing to Notre Dame 32-0. Encouraging Note of the Week: From Dr. Selso-Ramon Garcia, as sociate professor in the Depart ment of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania, who told an international confer ence on birth control yesterday that there is no proof that oral contraceptives make women ster ile. Returned Refugee of the Week:, The freedom-seeking eagle who was found in Leghorn, Italy, by a mushroon picker more than 1,300 miles away from the Helsinki zoo from which it had fled. w hat's Bugging You? It Could Be Our Own FBI J. Edgar Hoover might well be in favor of a mass reprinting of J Herbert Philbricks exciting book as a diversionary front. I The Federal Bureau of Investi J gation never looked better than it did through Philbrick's eyes in his best-selling book I Led Three t Lives. In fact, -the story was so glamorous it was adapted into a television show that brought the wonders of the FBI into the homes of admiring Americans for a cou- j Now, however;" one of Hoover S4- ? ! ownealihfVtor with; a ; different theme. The November issue of Ram parts magazine carries an article ; entitled, "I Was a Burglar, Wire- tapper, Bugger and Spy for the ; F.B.I." In this article William W. Turner, a ten-year veteran of the bureau, charges that the credo of the FBI is "you're only wrong when you get caught." ij He speaks damningly of "t h e -FBI's growing contempt for dem ocratic frills that stand in its way." "During my more than ten year istint I became increasingly consci ous of a cynical belief that the end justifies the means," he says. He outlines the courses he was (given in wiretapping, and in breaking and entering for the in stallation of "bugs" or hidden mic rophones in private homes and of fices. It is not without irony that jTurner has lashed out against the bureau's practices. For some iyears ago Hoover himself denounc jed wiretapping as "a lazy man's .tool arid an obstacle to the devel opment of ethical, scientific and fsound investigative technique." j But where wiretapping, wide spread as it has been, is partly tampered by the requirement that It's different when you're look ing them in the eye. It's one thing to lash out on is j sues when you're looking into a TV .camera,, and another thing to I stand face to face with a group land tell them things they proba ta bly disagree with violently. The men of A-House, Morrison, jhave extended an invitation to ; Jesse Helms to speak to their jgroup. We think it's high time someone invited him to speak on Icampus. And we think it's high time he accepted. : However, we wouldn't bet any money on his coming. Of course, :if someone really wanted to gam ble, he might start a pool to pick the excuse Helms will give for re gretting to say that he cannot come. it be authorized in each specific case by the Attorney General, no such strictures apply to hidden microphones, which may be in stalled on "Bureau authority" alone. The whole FBI bugging prac tice is now receiving an airing in Las Vegas where casino operators are suing the Central Telephone Co. of Nevada for $6 million for breach of contract, conspiracy and invasion of privacy. ...The., suit ., charges the company with Raving "filled 'Bt orders fOr725 leased lines which were used to cKannel wires connected to bugs in the Stardust, Riviera, Dunes, Desert Inn, Fremont and Sands hotels." Turner anticipates Hoover will try to counter the bad publicity likely to arise from the trial by is suing statements to divert atten-i tion from the black eye the bureau is receiving. This is a tactical move used by the bureau last summer. Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall ad mitted in court on July 13 that Hoover had until that time "pos sessed a blank check from the Jus tice Department to bug whenever he unilaterally decided." To take attention away from the embarrassing situation, the FBI released a spy story that day. Before the day was out, G-men had closed in on the principals in a couple of penny ante spy cases, and stories of FBI prowess com manded the headlines. The summer, its cases and con troversys are gone. But the bug ging issue is heating up again this fall. It should be a fascinating game to see if Hoover has enough spy cases up his sleeve to go around. Will He Come? 3 Satia at tel 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 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; $3 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel HOI, N C s f t -- : ; ,v . ... ? -- f .- I z -; .- : In Letters 4 Parent Speaks Letters Absurd Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: The recent spate of editor ials, articles, and : letters to the editor in - your excellently written student publication re garding the problem of what , to do with MrPauh indicates a situation that "can only be , described as eductio, ad ;ab surdam. Why&o anftUht MFt)Wo Mr Paull? hufact, iUmtmt to me that he ought to be com- T mended for his sympathetic treatment of his freshman stu- ' dents by givmg 'them an as: signment that should have been easy for them" to handle. He could have asked them to produce a critical analysis of the Doem itself, Mr. Mar veil's To His Coy Mistress! This, of course, would have been a cruel and unusual as signment because then the youngsters would have had to read the poem in question, and God knows, Marvell is no mar vel. Before proceeding further in this penetrating analysis of your present brouhaha, let me state my credentials. I was once a freshman English stu dent (albeit that this was so far in the distant oast that our course material was chiselled on the cave walls); I was once a graduate assistant teaching freshman English (however. I was successful in avoiding the nitfalls of Marvell although I did have a few perilous mo ment's with a thing called Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth by a man who is best not remembered); and, now, . in mv obvious dotage, I am the father of a freshman stu dent currently taking English at U.N.C. Certainlv the above se quence of mistakes should qualify me to present n opin ion on the present subject. 1 Mr. Paull's assignment to his class, if I understand it correctly, was for them to at tempt to produce an , essay which was to be a creative in vention on their part on the general subiect of seduction, using friend Marvell's rather tureid verse as the take-off point. What could be more natural for an assignment in a course supposedly devoted to the study of our forebear's liter ary efforts and to the develop ment of the creative faculties for expression of the students? (As I say, what could be more natural? I will not spend time here developing what could be less natural although y o u r r?dio friends in Raleigh might pause to ponder this other pos sibility.) I doubt that freshman stu dents today differ much from the freshman students of my days. And, if my memory serves me correctly most of our (and I am certain the av erage freshman of today's) idle moments were spent in creating rather baroque fanta sies on the very subject Mr. Paull so generously assigned. Of course, while the general motif and subject matter, of these creative daydreams re mains the same, the specific objects have undoubtedly changed. Ours were generally built on a starting point .of : Betty Grable, Ann Sheridan, ; and in a rare, unusual case,.. Marie Dressier. .. - Today, I ; am sure, ' t h e- : launching pad is more likely , to be. Sophia ,Loren, Jill St ;T Johny - andr for - the- bearded ; esPhyllisJpillerc;:l; 4 Nonetheless,.admitting these,, minor differences can Phyl lis Diller's difference be ade quately described as minor? the "assignment should h a v e been a most welcome snap for , the .average freshman English student and I fail to under stand how the present situa tion developed, I must confess that I am un able to listen to the Raleigh radio station which apparent ly precipitated this crisis. The reasons for this are that I live in a distant part of the coun try and because in 1964 I had my radio's dial flouridated as preparation for the imminent coinmunist take-over and now, ... the 4 damn thing , no longer turns to the far right the gen eral spectrum area of radio reception in which the Ra leigh station occurs. It would be helpful also if, in a future editorial, you would explain how it occurred that anyone in Chapel Hill was aware of what was being said on a radio in Raleigh. It had been my understand ingjthat the only communica tion between the two commu nities was the bi-annual pub lication put out by UNC, call ed "The Bobbsey Twins at the Legislature," which is sent to the otherwise unemployed, bi focalled bicamerals at Ra leigh, in return for which these gentlemen send back bushels of money with which to un derpay graduate assistants in the English Department. I do hope that good, com mon sense rules in Mr. Paull's case and that he is left alone to continue his creative ap proaches to higher education. Certainly, I hope that no stringent punishment develops such as reassigning hint to teaching freshman English to engineers over at State. Robert S. Smith Creeping Effeminacy Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: I'm as disturbed by creep ing effeminacy as Prof. Ros ser is in The Chapel Hill Weekly. I seem to see effeminate gestures everywhere I turn. Even the women these days are making them more often than they should victims of their own smothering mother ing, v But I cannot endorse Prof. Rosser's proposal for diverting the current overflow of our na tion's phys-ed faculties into the grade schools in order to pro vide our young males with father-substitutes to identify with, for there is no guaran tee that identification would in fact take place. Herds of these muscle-bound narcissists milling around the playgrounds and showing off their luscious firm flesh could incite as much homosexuality as masculinity, and even if the types did identify, they would presumably get the idea that real men spend their time hanging around young - . boys, which could' lead to trou-' 7qbleUater.:0n.h Hi nciicoLt :ui , In- the .long rua,dt seems-.to me, the real hazard to mas culinity is not momism, but the dissemination to the mass es of twentieth-century psycho logical, sociological, and phil osophical sophistication. Indeed, nothing poses a more direct and sinister threat to our culture in general, not just its sex roles, than the kind of introspection and self-understandingthe perverse "lone ly daydreaming and withdraw al," as Prof. Rosser puts it which these modern insights provoke. In the hands of responsible men like Prof. Rosser, knowl edge will never do anyone any harm, but we must never let it spread to those who would misuse it. - What, for example, if chil dren were told about the iden tification process? They might decide they didn't like the idea of having themselves masculinized, programmed with an alien personality. They might want to make autono mous choices. You can imagine what would become of masculinity then! Let us beware of knowing ourselves. Let us never look inward. Let us only look out ward. Let us put on our smiles and participate. Let us adjust. Bill Michaux Shame, ' Shame Editor, Daily Tar Heel: Since it is at present only four hours before the sched uled performance of Bob Hope and it is not yet sold out, we, the undersigned would like to express our complete disgust st this state of affairs. For the working capital it receives, GM is providing Carolina stu dents with several opportuni ties to see some great Ameri can entertainment. Yet, for reasons unknown, Carolina students will not turn out in great numbers for one of the most praised acts in show business. There are many good uni versities, which have strong ac?demic and athletic pro grams supported by their stu dents, but only great univer sities are supported by their studpnts wholeheartedly in all fields. How can we exoect greater prestige for our University if w ignore nationally-acclaimed entertainers? . The image of the University is, at least, lowered in the eyes of these performers. David Raby Harry Hege Craige Ashton S. P. Chairman Hits DTH Campaign Edit For several years, I have watched with alarm the inconsistencies in Daily Tar Heel policies. And it seems that there is confusion this year too as evidenced by the recent editorial entitled "Call A Spade A Spade And Call A Gimmick A Gimmick." Regarding this editorial, there are three -points that need to be made: Firstly, in an editorial cartoon which appeared in the pet. 19th edition of the Tar Heel, there were depicted two students, one from the Student Party, the other from the University Party. The two students were talking and the caption read, "Let's hope we don't have any wiseguys this year who ask what the issues are." Surely now, anyone would be able to understand the purpose here, i.e. let's hope that the S.P. and the U.P. both run on issues and strong programs this year rather than the all too frequent popularity con tests. On this point, I could not agree more. But merely a week later, the editor blasted Bland Simpson and the Student Party freshman candidates for creating such an issue, for lining up a program on which to run for class office. Your policy, Mr. Editor, is inconsistent. If indeed you want to see a campaign of issues, why then do you object to having issues in the cam paign? It is, and always has been, the policy of the Stu dent Party to present to the student body qualified, enthusiastic candidates who will do a good job if elected. The issue of a "Meet the Freshman Teams and Coaches Night" to which the editor-in-chief made mention is only one of many programs that the Stu dent Party freshman candidates are working on. Perhaps you, Mr. Editor, would prefer that a can didate run on a platform of high sounding political promises, impractical though they be. But personally, I would commend Mr. Simpson for taking the initiative of researching this plank of his platform, finding out that it is possible, learning that it is approved by the athletic department, ne gotiating a date that those concerned would like to have it held. This is well channeled enthusiasm, Mr. Editor, and I'm glad to see it. And finally, I am in favor of the proposed policy of having a non-partisan newspaper, and such should JlJw&&tJiejC in admitting 'that a mistake was made in the caption of the ar Hide in question, pqrhaps he real mistake was iri ? the printing of the article i itself? '.( Perhaps the editor, realizing that he had blun dered, and that his paper now took on a slightly parti san flair, perhaps he felt it was necessary to find fault with those who had proposed the program about which the article had been written. It is unfortunate indeed if the editor is using his editorial privilege to cover up his own mistakes at the expense of a group of freshman candidates seek ing to work for their class. I agree with you, Mr. Editor, and like to call things as I see them . . . But I like to call things as they really are. Change Strict Silence The fraternity rush rules at the University of North Carolina need to be changed, and the sooner the better. Although the present strict silence system has proved workable, there is a better solution, and it should be adopted next fall. The solution in mind is a slight modification of the present and successful rush system used at the Univer sity of Virginia. Such a system would have strict silence during the entire first semester, excepting vacations and three Sat urday nights as selected by the IFC. On these three designated evenings, which should (for economical rea sons) coincide with football weekends, each fraternity must observe open house for all prospective rushees. Invitations could be sent out, but it would not be necessary to receive an invitation before a rushee could visit a house, nor would it be necessary for the rushee to go by all the houses from whom he receives invita tions. The last point is made since it would be virtually impossible to enforce mandatory visiting. Although there are minor flaws in such a system, it has the overpowering advantage of giving both the fraternity and the rushee a chance for a better and clos er look at each other. It would also serve to take emphasis away from vacation rush parties, which are partially unsuccessful because out-of-state brothers often do not attend, and partially unfair since small houses are hard put to pro vide the same costly entertainment that the larger houses offer. Such a system would give the fraternities a chance to "sell themselves" to freshmen, and the freshmen could better judge dormitory social life vs. fraternity social life. There is much to be said for both, but presently the freshmen are getting a one-sided view. The Interfraternity Council is at present consider ing modifications for rush rules, and some alteration is certainly necessary. The worst that could happen would be for the committee to find no workable solution . This proposed modification, or a reasonable fac simile, should be considered and adopted. - - Walter Hussman
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