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Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Wednesday, November 9, 1966 Im Our Opinion ... Plight Of Sinistrad In His Rightist Society 'They'll Think It's The Prowler. It'll Scare The Wits Out Of 'Em V Ten per cent of the world's pop ulation will go to bed tonight frustrated. They have been and will be frustrated due to circum stances that are beyond their con trol. They are the sinistrads of the world the left-handed, the southpaw, the port sider. They live in the world of thepuritanical righ tists. From the portsider's person nal effects to telephones, it. is a right - handed world. The lefty starts with the right handed buttons on his shirt; he makes allowances for the closely place belt loops on the right side of his pants to accommodate the buckle. The southpaw finds both pants and shirts folded gainst him with the exception of cuff buttons which just break even. Even the pants zipper is against him. In the educational world the lefty really finds out whose world he is in. He sits in a right-handed desk, and his writing suffers from no elbow support. He also finds that notebooks are spirilled against him, always digging into his left forearm. Even the typewriter carriage return lev er is for the righty: the left hand is forced to leave the keyboard and then replace itself the right hand is always left. The electronic world shows the sinistrad that modern design is fading him from the picture. The telephone is a good example of this. The more accurate right fin ger is used to dial, and the left hand holds the receiver. Pay tele phones find the southpaw half in and half out of the booth trying to dial with the left hand. Some of the lefty's worse mo ments come when he is faced by his pride and joy, the stereo re cord player. The tone arm is on the right side. The volume control works in a clockwise motion, eas ier for the right. He looks to his television and notes that the designer has put the channel selector and volume control on the right side of the set. The sinistrad is haunted by the right - handed world even in the sanctity of his own automobile when he finds the. shift lever or stick on the right side. (On cer tain occasons, with one hand on the wheel, being a lefty has some advantages.) Just to mention a few more ir ritations: the permanent fixutre wall light has the switch on the right side, the wrist watch is to be set and wound with the right hand, even the friendly neighborhood vending machine expects to gob ble up quarters from, yep, the right side. Frustration upon frustration gets piled up on the sinistrad, a word, by the way, which gets its derivation from the Latin sinister sinister, unlucky, unauspicious. Realizing how much the world is stacked against him, the sinis trad seeks solace in an aspirin, only to find the cap to the bot tle screws off with a counter clockwise motion that favors . right - handers. Rightly speaking, we cannot help but feel that sinistrads must have their rights .After all, it's on ly right. And if not, then what's left for them? Born With A Book In Hand? - t '1 before e except after c, and in Mai's graduation not I before 3." This little reminder has gone up on the DTH bulletin board as a result of a classic typographical error in Sunday's paper which al ready has drawn one letter to the editor. . A story on page six that day announced that former North Ca rolina Attorney General Malcolm B. Seawell would speak to the Car olina Political Union Sunday night. In giving Seawell's biographi- Briefly Editorial Thinking back on it, we be lieve the Ku Klux Klan deserved a place at the N. C. State Fair but not on the midway. They would have fit well in the exhibit hall with the rest of the rare vegetab les. From Back Issues (Issues thatymade the news in The Daily Tar Heel on this date five, 10, and 15 years ago.) Nov. 10, 1S61 The Chapel Hill Citizens Committee for Open Movies voted last night to resume picketing at the Varsity Theater on Sunday. The Carolina Theater will not be affected. Meeting in St. Joseph Church, about 75 people voted without dissent for the new move. The picketing will last from 6 until 9:30 nightly, with pickets walking in half-hour shifts. The picketing was approved after the committee was told by its negotiating team that the Varsity had shown no inclination to co-operate in working to ward integration. Nov. 10, 1956 A dormitory manager has recently raised the point that the stapling of election campaign posters onto the wood en moulding of bulletin boards is a violation of the housing office rules, all posters stapled onto the moulding would have to be removed. Nov. 10, 1S51 'Best dressed prof has become 'best dressed burglar' on the Santa Barbara College campus. Yesterday, Dr. Gwynne Nettler, hand some athletic bachelor of 38, was lodged in the Santa Barbara county jail on the charge of burglarizing homes here and in Montecito. He was arrested by Sheriff John Ross on a tip given by a woman who claimed Nettler had once mistreated her. cal sketch, the article stated that he was graduated from UNC in 1913. This should have been 1931. Yesterday we found the follow ing not on our desk: Dear Tar Heel: I would like to nominate for mer Attorney General Seawell for "Scholar of the Centruy." According to Sunday's Tar Heel he is 57 years old and received his A.B. in 1913. If this is true, then he entered UNC in the year of his birth and finished in the regular four years. Did he work between then and 1935 (when he received his L.L.B.) or just grow up like any other normal school boy who received his A.B. at age four? OOPS! (Sift Sattg Sar 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 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 Hill, N. C. ? L. P ? - WAi3: I file k I. Jim If I mm! It ff Judith Sipe Wide Discrimination Faces U. S. Women Peter Harris How many times have you heard or perhaps said, "Oh, you're only a girl?" Ever wonder how it feels to be "only a girl?" Ever consider that girls may be capable of thinking, reacting or participating much the same way men do that they may even be human? To be a girl is to have a predetermined disadvantage in climbing trees or being stu dent body president. There is discrimination against women as bus drivers, as commercial pilots, as doctors and of course as President of the United States. Are there written laws against these occurrences? Not really. But there definite ly is quite a social stigma. What jobs are women al lowed to perform by theirjsu periors the men? Well, they can teach school. Now that's a nice feminine vocation un less, of course, a woman has the audacity to seek a higher degree and go into college teaching. t Heaven forbid What else? Oh yes, women Miriam Henkel can have children. Certainly there can't be anything diffi cult in that undertaking if helpless women are allowed to do it instead of the bril liant, masculine men. Speaking of these brilliant men, where do they come from? Although no one is will ing to admit it, strangely enough they are educated, rep rimanded, conditioned and de veloped by women! Mothers take over the train ing of all children until they grow up. Then the father steps in, takes over the finished, accomplished son and says with pride, 'That's my Boy." A girl? Oh, her. She goes from being "only a girl" to become "only a woman." It is a vicious circle. "A woman's place is in the home." Women who seek to accomplish anything in the outside world are criticized. If they try to do a "man's job," they are unfeminine. Let's face it. No matter how far societal changes allow women to advance, no matter who becomes the first wom an president, to somebody she will still be "only a girl." A View Off Harvard What Ta D with A Hungry Alligator Despite the old buildings, the ivy walls, and the aura of ex citing tradition, Harvard trans mits the feeling that it is con . tinually setting the pace. While in Boston last week end, I managed to spend a lot of time in Cambridge in be tween trips to Jackson Col lege. Harvard is a fascinating place; it is progressive, but by no means perfect. It has its hang - ups, like any. school. However, I do believe that their problems are less basic than, for example, speech or freedom of thought. One interesting aspect of Harvard life is their house sys tem. The undergraduate body is divided into nine houses, each supplying facilities such as a swimming pool, a squash court, and a dining hall. The meals, by the way are excel lent. One is immediately struck by the interaction between the students in the house. They seem much more congenial and relaxed than UNC stud ents; the petty competition be tween personalities is great ly reduced. On the other hand, the kids are bright, they know it, and there is a sense of unbitter competition in Harvard's at mosphere. If the competition is not di rected at each other, it is at least a determination to achieve a high grade aver age. The fellows seem to ac cept each other more easily at Harvard than UNC stu dents do in Chapel Hill. The relaxed atmosphere pro vided in the dorms is illustra ted by the preponderance of bull sessions in the dining halls. The more popular lectures enroll up to 500-600 students. Steve Hoar this means less contact with the professors than at UNC. There is some concern over this fact by the students. Their lectures impressed me as being more lively and in spired than those I have ex perienced here at UNC. The professorial freedom for ex pounding more radical theo ries on their subjects is ob vious. These men, of course, are often leading authorities in their fields and create a freer atmosphere for new ideas. The student body reacts to this and one feels that the cus tomary hisses, laughs, and ap plause during and after lec tures is more than mere tra dition. The professors lecture to the students on a high, honest level. They expect the students to be prepared to understand. The kids are .communicable arid the fact that they are accepted on a high level pro vides a realistic, rational at mosphere. The students know they are entering a challeng ing world where independence thrives and dependence is scor ned. If "lost souls" sometimes wander through Harvard Square, there are also many searching souls who feel the exciting spirit of self-discovery. When people confront them selves and are not protected by constant shadows of se curity, they must perceive a more open world. They must raise a more open eye to life. UNC, in many ways more relaxed than Harvard, still fails to provide the stimu lating, searching atmosphere found in Cambridge. Sure, the students there are morei Alligators aren't much fun. They can't fetch sticks or roll over and play dead or speak for their suppers. They can't purr or rub their furry bodies against their own er's ankles. They can't sing or talk or The Bard Lives Yet In Chapel. Hill Life Your English 21 professor wasn't kidding when he told you that the wisdom of Wil liam Shakespeare is timeless. The Bard of Avon has some deep insights into the prob lems and personalities around this campus. Suppose Shakespeare were alive todayhere at UNC, as, let's say, a special student in creative writing. And suppose we met him strolling along in front of Graham Memorial one afternoon, gazing at the au tumn colors. An interview might go something like this Well, hello there, Will How's it going this semester? "I am slow of study" (Mid summer Night's Dream). Yeah, I guess so, if you spend all your time wander ing around looking at the trees. "These trees shall be books" (As You T,ifcp m Oh, cut it out. At this rate, you could flunk out of school What's your QP average' "Must I hold a candle to my shames?" (The Merchant Of Venice). Okay, we'll change the sub ject. Been listening to Jesse Helms's radio broadcasts lately? "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the stable of his argument" (Love's Labours Lost). Football team hasn't been my doing too well either, has it? "True it is that we have seen better days" (As You Like It). Yeah, and speaking of bet ter days, I guess you heard about poor old Fauntleroy. . . "A wretched soul, bruised with adversity" (The Comedy Of Errors). How true. How true. Almost as sad as all our friends' get ting married lately, don't you think? "Men are April when they wpo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives" (As You Like It). Say, is it true that you ran into Otelia Connor the other day at Lenoir Hall? I'll bet she's not really. . . "A tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide" (King Henry VI). Oh, you're putting me on. Why, little old Otelia couldn't hurt a. . . "Though she be but little, she is fierce" (Midsummer Night's Dream). Sorry 'bout that. Say, isn't that a campus policeman put ting a ticket on your car over there? "Here will be an abusing of God's patience and the king's English" (The Merry Wives of Windsor). The rest is silence. select; but it is more than that. It is a level of ' commun ication between the adminis tration, professors, and stu dents. The easy assumption of freedom at Harvard is sooth ing compared with UNC's plight. UNC is an excellent school. There is no doubt that it provides educational facili- ties comparable with the best fly or even swim very well. scnoois in the nation. They can't hop or wiggle It remains however, serious- their noses ly entangled in controversy They aren't nice to look at over basic freedoms. This is or hold, most tragic, for it, in part, They can't sleep at the foot stalls our ability to be one of 0f your bed or be trained to the nation's pace - setters in bring in the evening paper, the education world. They can't chase mice in Gregory Peeler 4 Writing Pro Mem Certain skills are demanded broken and despair sets in. of future journalists one of Procrastination is her policy which is very important and and progress is not her most that is the skill of writing an important product, editorial. Once again for inspiration It takes time, patience, de- she gazes around the room, termination and an ability to is struck with a wonderful id write. Here are the trials and ea, jots down a title and then tribulations of one journalism scratches it out. After all, the student in writing her weekly DTH would never print an ar editorials. tical on "My Messy Roommate First, her wonderful profes- Bessie" and if it is not good sor assigns an editorial to be enough for the Tar Heel it brought in every Saturday is not good enough for her. not every other Saturday not Several other ideas are ex even every Thursday but ev- plored but to no avail, ery single solitary Saturday. With wadded paper strewn This assignment is accepted about the room, a tear in her with little overjoyment but with eye and a heavy heart, she lots of determination. Writing blames her defeat and' lack an editorial is a definite chal- of talent on heredity and justi- lenge but practise makes per- fied her dull editorial by her feet, so she sits down at her inadequacies, desk with pen in hand and li- In sheer desperation she terally attacks the notebook writes another flop on the art paper. of writing an editorial. Alter acceptmg this challenge of writing an amusing, infor mative, interesting, converting literary masterpiece, she tries to discover a topic which no one has approached or one on which she knows enough to write about. This limits her subject mat ter since she lacks percep tion, intelligence and ingenuity. Her store of knowledge of po litics consists of knowing that a mean ole Democrat named Johnson is now president. On world events she is conscious of the fact that the war in Viet Nam is cutting the boy-girl ratio down at Carolina every day. Across the U.S.A. she is fa miliar with men named Wal lace, Maddox, Callaway, and Reagan but she is not sure who is running where. She realizes the best in sports today is the Carolina football team. The stock market has gone down and prices have gone up an excuse to ask for more allowance. And since her father sells bread she knows everything about it if only she were in an advertising course. Therefore, this well-informed student is at loss for words, the basement. (Maybe they could but they'd look pretty silly.) ' They can't do much of any thing except sleep and bark. In short, alligators are total ly useless except to those outfits in Florida that are reaping profits by snatching the wretched creatures from their happy, swampy homes, selling them and often sub jecting them to the perils of the U. S. Postal Service. A mail-order alligator is sent in an unventilated card board box barely large enough to hold it. "The care and feed ing of a real live baby alliga tor in a very small nutshell" is printed on the box for the edification of the owner. The day the alligator in question arrived, there was a strong temptation to mark the package "addressee unknown" and send it back. But we don't really like to tamper with the U. S. Mail, especially since the thing was addressed to a girl who is very maternal about alligators. We have seriously consid ered voicing our outrage to the ASPCA about the inhu mane manner of shipping the creature, but the thing is thriving at present on a hand fed diet of raw shrimp (or is it a shrimp-fed diet of raw hand?) And though he may not be exactly ecstatic about his sta tion, it is certain that no alli gator in captivity has a softer life. He gets shrimp every day, clean water, a morning in the sunlight of the study room and a stomach rub every now and then if he's good. We should be so lucky. Matthew Smith Flying Saucers Are A Serious Problem Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's swamp gases! At least we know it's not superman. Or do we? To date, there have been over a thousand reports of unidentified flying objects throughout the United States. One man even claims he and his wife were "kidnapped" by men from outer space. Supposedly, 75 per cent of these sightings have been sci entifically explained, but what about the other 25 per cent? In Massachusetts last year an "object" was seen in sev eral different localities but de scribed exactly the same way by everyone who saw it Countless jet pilots have ac tually chased U.F.O.'s through the skies and made photo graphs of them. Swamp gases, scientists say wwa illusions, xet. to , , j i, even u iu apcott., uiu gazes aruunu tney cannot be positive the room wondering what earth why does everyone want to shaking point she will make rule out the idea that these in this week's editorial. objects might truly be flyim? Having a horrible fear of saucers? Are we so selfieS being asked to read her paper tered here on earth that we to a class of super intelli- believe we are the only be- gent writers and editors, she ings in the universe and the -sits for hours wondering how only ones capable of manned she can compete in a man's space flight? world, g r a d u a t e from the The universe is not known school of journalism and pass for its minuteness, so with her editorial writing class. our very small knowledge of After 4 coffee breaks, 3 stu- what goes on in it, why&is it dy breaks, a dinner break and not possible for there to be 2 phone breaks, her spirit is life on other planets with a civilization far superior ours? One of these days, a large saucer-shaped object is going to land on earth; seven hun dred little green men are go ing to jump out and confiscate South America. The write-up in the next morning's paper 'will read; "There is no cause for alarm, South America only appears to be missing. "Sunspots, along with an un usually high tide, combined with a large low cumulus for mation of clouds have caused the optical effect of making South America seem to dis appear. "Scientists assure us that it will return within twenty-four hours." True, a ridiculous story, but people used to laugh at Jules Verne; however, his stories are now out - dated. The word "unbelievable" no longer has a use in the Eng lish language. Your best bet is this: if a large mysterious object just happens to land in your back yard ignore it. It's either lost its way to South America, your neighbor is bringing over his new, lighted, self inflatable swim ming pool or the Martians have run out of swamp gas ... or maybe you were just seeing thinsrs.
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