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THE DAILY TAR HEEL . -Tuesday, November 8, 1966 Em Our Opinion A Write - In For Tyndall Will Help Class Offices 'Come to think uv it, there is sumthin' spechul about today. Yuh can't by booze.' In the past few weeks, we have thought about and tended to doubt the value of class offices. It has been our observation that year af ter year the same promises are made by candidates of both parties and the same small amount of worthwhile activity is carried out by the winners. While it is uncommon for the DTH to endorse a candiate for a class office, we feel it in order to present our evaluation of the independent candidate for presi dent of the class of 1970, Robert Tyndall. In looking at Tyndall, We see a candidate who has carried on a vigorous campaign more energetic, we think, than either of his two opponents de spite the fact that he has no par ty machine or organization behind him. We see a candidate with a string of pre - university accom plishments equaled by few in his class: organizer and first presi dent of the Durham Organization of Student Councils, first one of its type in the nation; high school student body president; high school class president four years running; discussion group leader for district, state and national Stu dent Council; winner of United Nations World Peace Medal; page at United Nations; delegate to Na tional Youth Conference in Wash ington. We see a candidate who, as only a freshman, recognizes many of the real matters with which student leaders should be concerned: judicial and academ ic reform, for example. And these were his ideas, not ideas given him by a party. And we see a candidate whose name will not be on the ballot. He goes into the election with the disadvantage of being a write-in candidate because he did not rush into campus politics as soon as he got to campus; be cause he did not get the big guns behind him; because he decided to become a candidate and espouse some ideas in which he strongly believes after being disappointed with the candidates and platforms offered by the two parties. Class offices have existed too long in a strictly social capacity. The most striking people with the best organization have won too many elections. As a result, many people on campus think class offices should be discontinued. As we said, we too have thought of this. But we, and many others, have not de cided yet. The freshman class has an op portunity today to elect a presi dent who might be able to reju venate the office; who might be able to use organization on t h e class level as an effective aid to Student Government and the whole student body in coordinat ing and unifying student ideas and desires to activate worth while programs. We say he might. We're not positive. Class offices are a gam ble at best. But it seems clear that the best bet for the class of 1970 is a write- ' in for Robert Tyndall. It's A Swinging Way To Go 5 " ; Next time you are stuck in Chapel Hill with nothing to do 1 say the dorm TV is broken, or Harry's is closed for repairs, or 5 you have run out of LSD there j is no need to be bored. We recently discovered a new : pastime which has all the possi ' bility of becoming a major cam : pus sport. ; The game is called "Which j door of Graham Memorial Is Op- en Tody?" A minimum of equipment is re quired for play all you need - is a large student union build ing with three swinging doors at : the front, and an athletic suppor : ter. ; Having assembled these, the - player, as if he had business in : side, approaches the building at a j steady clip. Upon moving closer ; to the structure, he makes up his : mind which of the three doors is unlocked, and attempts to open ; and pass through it. 5 Attendants at GM have been : kind enough to change the com bination of open and closed doors ; daily and at times even more of ten. 4 ! This "moment of decision" is the high point of the sport the : fourth and goal - to - go so to J speak for at this point one of : two things will occur. j (1) If the player's judgment has erred, the door will be locked, I Score minus five points plus mi j nus one for each day spent with I your dislocated elbow in a cast, j (2) If the door opens, score five ; points for your brilliant play, plus ' a number of dividend points scor ; ed in the following way: You get two extra points if : you push on the door and hit Otelia Conner in the face with it ; as she approaches from the oth l erside. ; You lose two points if s h e pushed on the door and hits you in the face. J In case two players approach opposite sides of the door simul taneously and both chose to eith- ' er push or pull a stalemate is caused and no one scores. ' Any other rule your sport ing mind can concoct. The game has all the elements of a successful sport. It intrigues the gambler's mind to think about that one - in - three chance of picking the open door. If you like blood and gore in your games you can have it when players mis judge their approaches and get whacked on the head by players from the other side of the door. No one has been able to deter mine just why . the managers at Graham Memorial have no stand ard open door policy Perhaps it's their sense of fair play. But we might as well make the best of , it. And even Jesse Helms has to admit that there are many more dangerous things that we could be spending our time on at the University. Kerry Sipe Utye Satttj (3ar 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 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. Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel mil, 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 Hill, N. C -m omr ftffi free In Letters Maddox Luke Hitter Foreigner Shocked Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: As a foreigner I have been keeping close watch on t h e American scene for more than a year now. Some phenomena on the political scene seem deeply disturbing, the more so since I feel, I hope wrongly, that these phenomena have not causd enough concern among many enough Ameri cans in the intellectual com munity. What I am referring to is the fact , that men like Lester Maddox, Ronald Reagan, and George Wallace (by proxy) have been elected candidates for governors. Remembering pictures in Swedish magazines in 1964 of Maddox, revolver in hand, chasing Negroes out of his- motel, it - seems like a ' farce that this, man'by popii-- '' lar vote could' get "anywhere v near the top office of his state. His behavior reveals a per sonality resemblant of anoth er "governor" we all know about. His name was Hitler. There was of course at least one difference, but that is an insignificant one: Hitler chan neled his hatred toward the Jews, Maddox toward the Ne groes. To me the similarities are more significant, particularly one: both men have proved themselves capable of manip ulating majorities of voters to support their programs of hos tility and "reformation." Yet, during and after the era of Nazi - Germany it was widely held to be almost un believable that the culturally, technologically, educationally etc. advanced German peo ple could lend their support to the elevation of a man like Hitler. Of course, social scien- David Rothman tists (like Erich Fromm, Odor no, Jahoda etc. in this coun try) have all made their diag noses, but either these have not been read or we have for- gotten about them. Psychologically speaking, there might be a close con v nection between phenomena like Hitler and Maddox. I for one would suggest, therefore, that the diagnosticians of Nazi - Germany might have something valuable to offer for the prevention of a socie tal, psychological disease that proved so fatal for Ger many and could have proven fatal for a good part of the world had not the U. S. by that time been a more sane society. If societal illnesses of which Maddox and other reactionar- ies may be said to be symp toms are not checked in time Hut threaten -to spread 'to-'-dtti-'5 er parts of the American so- s ciety, then I can very well envisage a recurrence of a threat resembling the one Ger many posed in 1939. Typically, one of this breed of politicians has already un covered his aspirations for the White House, namely Wal lace. If my analysis is approxi mating accuracy there may be reason for alarm. If an erosion of humanitarian ideals and principles could follow the election of a hostility - laden, bigot, and prejudiced govern ment in the frustration-loaded German society of the 30's, what solidity is there in the base of our belief that this could not possibly recur in the U. S. under psychological ly similar conditions, i.e. if frustrations keep mounting? The German public did not realize what was happening until it was too late. The German academic community Soldiers Are Forced To Buy U. S. Bonds Prepare yourself for a pos sible diet of beans and pota toes if you get drafted after graduation. Don't prepare yourself just because you might receive combat rations. Do so also because your commanding of ficer, might believe in "streng thening the war effort" by "en couraging" his underpaid sol diers to buy U. S. Savings Bonds. And, according to letters re ceived by Sen. Sam Ervin, get ready likewise to be driv en to the poorhouse by being forced to contribute to charity. Secretary of Defense Rob ert McNamara has assured Ervin. chairman of the Senate Constitutional Rights subcom mittee, that the Defense De partment doesn't tolerate re quired participation in savings bond campaigns and charity drives. But tell that to the writ ers of more than 200 letters complaining about this to the subcommittee. One of the writers, a Char lotte woman, said her 19-year-old son with a pregnant wife was "forced to buy U. S. Sav ing Bonds on what little he makes a month. "I think it is outrageous! "They can hardy live! "They have a diet of beans and potatoes." And a soldier in North Da kota writes he was "kindly in formed" that if he refused to buy bonds he "would be treat ed as an outcast." Discussing pressure to con tribute to the United Fund, the wife of a Camp Lejeune, N. C, marine says members of her husband's battalion "were told that if they did not give a certain amount. . . they would not have any liber ty. "Plus, those who did not donate would be used to ful fill the coming week's duty roster. "It is not that I feel the amounts designated were un fair, but the fact they were bribed into giving the money seems to me to be unconsti tutional." Ervin, commendably con cerned about this violation of property rights, shares the lady's opinion. Moreover, he has perceiv ed pathetic irony: "It is a strange anomaly that we should require service men to leave their jobs and their homes to serve their country and then force them against their will to invest in bonds to support their own wa effort." Alas, how wonderful it would be if "volunteering" in the army were confined to "re questing" K.P. was also almost taken by the bedside. Oould it possibly be that we are approaching the 11th hour for American intellectuals in great numbers to assume their vital role of safe - guarding the American society against political - psychological de velopments that could prove disastrous not only for the U. S. but for the rest of the world? Sven Lundstedt Maggots In Phones Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: I am sure you receive many complaints every day about the Chapel Hill Telephone Company, but I think that this letter will expose them to a greater degree than ever before. .e Thus far we have experi enced the usual delays in in stallment but to add to the complications they gave us a phone with a number which another phone already had. Confusing, eh? Thus there are two phones in Craige with the same num ber and it is quite an incon venience when long distance calls are received and we have to tell the caller that he must call again as he has reached the wrong right num ber. However this is minor as compared with the following. Tonite the phone rang and when we answered it there was dead silence. We hung up and the same was repeat ed. I noticed that the wires were frayed and I asked my roommate, an electrical gen ius, to look it over. Upon unscrewing the mouth piece we found literally thou sands of dried up maggot eggs and two dead full grown maggots. This was the mouth piece I remind you. Fortunately my roommate was able to splice the wires and put it in working condi tion (as the phone company never could have done for at least a week) and I sterilized the mouthpiece after nearly losing my dinner. As of this date we still haven't received our phone bill, but when it comes, its payment will surely take long er than its arrival. John R. Asbury Lost And Found Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Students are both harassed and busy people, and in fits of absentmindedness are apt to be careless with their personal possessions. Many students mislay keys, textbooks, rainwear, and um brellas, especially in the li brary. Some leave diamond watches, class rings and other items of considerable value, and never even return to in quire about them. This is a plea to students to personalize their belongings: sew a name tag in your Lon don Fog, tape your name on the handle of your umbrella. As soon as you buy a text book, put your name and ad dress on it. Not only will you be able to identify your item in the "lost and found," but also you will minimize the chance of someone else appropriating something belonging to you. Thank you. Rhoda Channing Acting Undergraduate Librarian Peter Harris The United States Is Going To Pot Poor America; the'sideshow continues. The United States is a boiling pot of nuts and the tensions of the times have finally began to bubble over. Allen Ginsberg refers to this plight as the state of "continual put-down." Stokely Carmichael says that he does not trust anybody, especially whites. Reacting to this, New York City youths formed SPONGE (Society for the Prevention of Negroes Getting Everything). Poor John Lennon fell victim to Bible Belt con demnation this summer and Napoleon XIV was banned in Boston. Poor Lyndon Johnson must have an operation on his photogenicsar. Alas! Everybody has their prob lems. Pat Brown is about to be defeated by the Man churian candidate. Back East, teen queens have reverted to the past in an attempt to blast open the future. You can see them wearing Jean Harlow style clothes and make-up in New York discotheques. Then there is the California modern type, the Hell's Angels, groping madly through orgies of sex and pot to discover what it is really like to be left alone. Fortunately, the greatest concern over this mass confusion comes from America's sophisticates. Tug McGraw of the New York Mets, for instance, complained this summer to a New York sportswriter about his younger brother who is always protesting things. "I sure hope he straightens out, soon," Tug said. The poor longhairs of our society! You see, it has been the beatniks so often at tacked through the years who have suffered the most. Their abode of humble freedom and artistry Green wich Village was invaded about five years ago by grubby fourteen year olds in search of a cool rebellion pattern; most of these kids came from regions around Park Avenue. Today, Greenwich Village might better be named "the late candy-cane of disillusioned fortunates." Of course, we all know this national confusion will be resolved through natural selection the sur vival of the fittest. For example: This summer Bryn Williams of England ate 32 bowls of jellied eels in 45 minutes to win the World Jellied Eel Eating Championship. Deelish! ' Post-Dispatch Knocks Chancellor's Decision From The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Chancellor Carlyle Sitterson is allowing the Uni versity of North Carolina to be pushed around by the kind of people who are ever eager to inhibit institu tions of higher education from functioning as commu nities of scholars. He has knuckled under to a right-wing television commentator in Raleigh by transferring an instructor in freshman English, Michael Paull, from teaching to research. Mr. Paull's offense? He assigned a class to write themes on a poem about seduction, "To His Coy Mis tress," written more than 300 years ago by Andrew Marvell, a leading poet, of the Puritan period in Eng land, and had the themes read aloud in class. The Marvell poem appears in many college text books and anthologies used in classwork. Its subject is essentially similar to that of the popular "Septem ber Song," whose lyrics were written by the distin guished poet and playwright Maxwell Anderson, to music by Kurt Weill, for the musical play "Knicker bocker Holiday." Bui some of the students found the class themes embarrassing and at least one regarded some of them as vulgar. Mr. Paull, reportedly somewhat embar rassed himself, asked for the themes to be rewritten. Chancellor Sitterson defends his action on grounds that Mr. Paull did not have "effective communication with his class" and that "the reading of themes had seriously disturbed the normal teacher-student learn ing relationship." Both these contentions seem to be pretty well in validated by the fact that all 22 members of the class signed petitions urging Mr. Paull's return to teaching duties. Two to three hundred students and faculty mem bers are urging the same, plus establishment of a re view board to assess the instructor's effectiveness as a teacher. It is always a blow to education when any school bows to the ignorantists, particularly so when, as in the case of the University of North Carolina, the school is one with a long and admirable history' of in dependence in its intellectual life. Letting the university be had once by those who would like to constrain it to their own prurience, rig igity and political persuasion will only encourage them to renewed attack, in the quite logical view that what they have done once they can do again and again. We look for some second thoughts, and better ones, from Chapel Hill.
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