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X Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Saturday,- November' 12, I96fi Im Our Opinion TH Awards Of The Week I Think The Losers Ought To Have To Take Them DownV B ; Lizard of the Week: Whoever came up with the idea of students having to send in a coupon to be eligible to get a Yackety Yack next spring. Vacationers of the Week: Mana gers of the state's ABC stores who closed up shop Tuesday for elec tion day and again Friday for Vet erans' Day. Mistake of the Week: Counting and tabulation of the votes for freshman class president. Wisher of the Week: Independent Robert Tyndall who said Wednes day afternoon after the recounting of ballots for frosh class president, "Why can't I be 'President for a Day' like the rest of the candi dates!" Foot-ln-Mouth Legislator of the Week: SP Representative Jed Dietz who was a leading contend er for "Most Bushy-Haired Legis lator This Side of Bobby Kennedy" until his performance Thursday night. Speaking on privilege, Dietz urged legislators to investigate thoroughly all legislation before in troducing it and to be sure that adequate committee research had been carried out in order to be able to answer any questions from the floor. He then introduced a bill and asked for immediate consid eration. Upon being questioned about certain fine points in the bill, he answered with a short, "I don't know," and recommended that the bill be recommitted. . Losers of the Week: The states of Georgia and Alabama, the lat ter for electing a woman to be governor by proxy for her husband who didn't do an outstanding job for himself, and the former for failing to elect a governor at all and who would have had a loser with either candidate. Student Government Bad Image Projector of the Week: A rusty colored Cocker Spaniel who limp ed around SG offices for a while yesterday afternoon, barking and making whining noises, then fell calmly asleep behind a desk with out doing anything. Protester of the Week: A Univer sity of Mississippi student who re fused to pay his campus parking tickets and took the matter to court. In a precedent-setting deci sion the court dismissed the case, ruling that state institutions of higher learning do not have the power to create regulations which are municiple in effect. Job Corps Trainee of the Week: President Johnson, who this week joined the training program for youngsters 16 through 21. It's not the chief executive. It's a lad from Hammond, La., whose name just happens to be President Johnson. Compliment of the Week: From The News of Orange County which honored a DTH editorial by print ing a viciously defensive answer which, among other ludicrous ac cusations, labeled the editor of the DTH "a wayward youth with ac cess to printer's ink." Just Hanging Around Poster, poster on the wall, You hang so long before you fall. Friends, we got trouble. Right here in Chapel Hill. It starts with "T", and that rhymes with "P" and it stands for "Poster." Oh it's not serious trouble. Noth ing' to get excited-about. ButTit does sort of make one wonder just who is supposed to get the campaign posters off the bulletin boards around campus after elec tions are over? :'It's ironic that this problem should come up at all since dur ing the campaigns the trouble is always just the opposite candi dates have a full-time job keeping their posters from being torn dpwn. : ' But, believe it or not, some pos ters survive the campaign sabo tage and hang for years. A bulle tin board in upper quad still bears ;a red, white and blue banner urg- Small Guys Fight Daily Northwestern A phenomenal thing is happen ing across the United States. The consumer is fighting price increas es, and apparently beginning to win at least several skirmishes. In Denver, where the boycotts originated, five supermarkets re ceiving the strongest boycott at tack substantially lowered the prices of five items. In themselves the boycotts are important indicating what the average buyer can do to cut pric es. But just as important have been the boycott's resulting side effects. On Oct. 25, the Federal Trade Commission announced that re tailers and processors, not dwin dling supplies, must be blamed for increases in such products as bread and milk. . Saturday the FTC followed its statement with action, announc ing it would, investigate whether supermarket promotional games add to food prices, and illegally restrain food market competition. For a long time, consumers won dered, as they meticulously pasted their green, red, and plaid stamps into books, how much they were paying for those redeemable gifts. It's not often the average buyer is able to exert pressure against the large retailers. But now, may be consumers will get the facts on supermarket prices and gim micks, and at the same time, a fair deal. ing students to vote for Don Car son for student body president. He ran in 1965. The same bulletin board has a ppster from last spring's campaign advising voters to elect Fred Thomas as DTH ed itor. ;r:T';:: - " " Being vain as we are, the old candidates don't get too upset by the fact that their posters are jstill up. But we think the resident's of the various living units might like to use their bulletin boards. Also, boards in classroom buildings no doubt could be put to better use than carrying out-dated campaign slogans. Perhaps one reason they are still up is that students, being the obe dient creatures that they are, still remember the warning of the elec tions board that tearing down or defacing posters can constitute a Campus Code offense. If this is the case, don't worry about this rule. It's not in effect after elections. Let your malicious streak go for a while. Rip 'em up. Tear 'em down. Just get rid of 'em. 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 v 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 -semester; $3 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill PublishingCo., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel HOI, N. C. f&m? r .nr. . .AT In Letters Pmf Befemds SBS Ivey Wrong Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: As a faculty member who knows personally a good many members of SDS, Iwas great ly disturbed by the remarks attributed to Pete Ivey by re porter Bill Amlong in Sun day's Tar Heel. Mr. Ivey, an official spokes man for the University, is quoted as saying, "They are activists for the sake of being activists most of the . time." According to Mr. Iveyr they are "bugged" students w h o represent less than .03 per cent of the student body. Students who are "activists for the sake of being activists" will seek out almost any minor issue mainly for the sake of creating a disturbance. What are some of the "minor" is sues with which these students have been concerned? To my knowledge, they have focused on the war in Viet Nam, the gag law, and dis crimination on and off cam pus. Now if Students cannot be actively concerned about truly major social issues such as these without being ridi culed as being "bugged," then this campus is indeed "pro vincial" and "backwater," as Gary Waller claims. At the time SDS invited Ap theker and Wilkinson to the campus there were outcries to the effect that they were merely seeking publicity, that the "timing" was poor, and that they were "merely" test ing the administration. , III view of the Governor's public stand against the ear lier Aptheker invitation, it was likewise obvious that a new challenge would have to be made once the trustees had made their decision, to leave policy in the hands of the chancellor. Thanks to the SDS group, the issue was squarely faced, and the matter is in the hands of the courts. Early this fall, members of the SDS (as well as other groups) called to the Chancel lor's attention the existence of de facto policies permitting those landlords who chose to discriminate to also make use of the (publically supported) University Housing Office. As I recall, the charge was initially denied, but the chan cellor then made clear the University's policy by sending a letter to those landlords who elected to use the University's services. Again, the SDS were effec tive in initiating action and they did so with a minimum of publicity. More recently, the news media have repeatedly at tempted to link the SDS with the Paull case, the implica tion being that the opposition to the chancellor's decision is being spearheaded by a small group of radical activists. On several occasions, Gary Waller attempted to make it quite clear that although SDS members, as individuals, were very much concerned about the chancellor's decision, the group itself had taken no offi cial stand. Instead, action was taken by the more inclusive Committee for Free Inquiry. Again, I thought that members of the SDS handled themselves with dignity and sincerity. While I do not personally agree with all of the positions taken by all members of the SDS, I think that on the whole their actions have been very commendable, well thought out, and provocative in the best sense of that word. ; ,1 wish that I could say the : j, same"ior some of their critics. Unlike Mr, Ivey, I wish this group did not represent such a tiny fraction of our student body. They are a healthy in fluence and should foe en couraged. Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. Professor of Sociology Religion Again Editor, The Daily Tar Heel In various newspapers of the state we see, from time to time, letters from a Law rence C. Roush of Wilson. In areas where he is ap parently informed, Mr. Roush is often on the side of the angels. He supports the De mocratic Party, is for equal rights for all Americans, sup ports our President and men in Viet Nam, is opposed to Communism (and other totali tarianisms), and is against the Ku Klux Klan. To all these opinions and actions, I give full consent and support. However, in the area of re ligion, Mr. Roush must have had a bad dream in which he was severly pronged by the fork of the devil as viewed by the medieval mind. The gentleman is certainly unfa miliar with the Orthodox, clas sical, or Catholic beliefs con cerning God. Certainly he does not know the creating, redeeming, and sanctifying God revealed ful ly in the incarnation in the the person of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Robert Pace Sorry, Sandy Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: This is a reply to an article written by Sandy Treadwell on the eve of the UNC - Clemson football game.- The article was what I considered negative and I would appreciate my reply published if possible. If you picked up a Tarheel Sat morning with qualms about Tar Heel chances m Death Valley, your questions were answered on page one by Sandy Treadwell. Even when optimism has been smudged upon by circumstance, it need not lead to speculative pes simism. If you can't say something nice about the Heels how about versing the facts and leaving the crystall ball to the mediums. Football games are not always won by the better team and often the de sire and drive of an embit tered underdog has proven su perior to physical prowess. Maybe the first three quar ters of last year's Notre Dame game has slipped your mem ory. What makes a football team great? One of the tan gible things is the ability to yield a good showing, perhaps to win, when it's down and knows it's down. s. The bouncing back, the psy chic enthusiasm to represent with pride and to win with confidence can only be in stilled in an environment which exhibits such an attitute. Today those pieced together Tar Heel lines will be having to fight two battles, one phy sically with the tigers of Cle son and the other psycholo gically in proving to people like Sandy Treadwell that they deserve his support. Why can't we give 'em a chance to concentrate on what's in front rather than having to glance constantly behind to see which friend is going to kick or prod. The real losers are the guys both on and off the field who give up when things seem a little rough. You're a loser Sandy, a real loser. Bon Stephens Don Stephens Tyndall Rests Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: For Robert Tyndall, I sup pose sleep and study are in order now that the election is over and his vigorous cam paigning has ended. It's rather funny: Tyndall worked like an indefatigable worker in hopes of winning that election. But .in the re latively short span of one day election day he went from the role of tireless political workhouse and darkhorse can didate to the role of the de feated, and perhaps the for gotten, r It is roughly analagous to the obituary: a man works hard all his life, perhaps tries to make this world a little better place in which to live by personal sacrifice. Yet, when he dies that obit is all that remains. I hope sincerely that Robert Tyndall will not die as a re sult of this election, not phy sically or in any other sense of the word. Although I grad uated from Durham High Scho three years ahead of him, I followed his career there with interest; it was hard to do anything else, for Tyndall's actions and words labeled him as a "real comer." Robert Tyndall almost "ar rived" here several days ago. Bjut almost is too often an excuse. I hope that whether it be as an independent or as part of a party machine whichever he chooses for himself Robert Tyndall will return as a candidate for a class office. This world needs more Ro bert Tyndalls, and this Uni versity needs more Robert Tyndalls. Dennis Sanders David Rothman Jobs Of Newsmen Conflict With Ethics From The UNC Journalist Editors unhesitantly expose former government or military officials like retired generals who become vice presidents of companies with plush defense con tacts. The editors speculate sometimes, not just cynically that the generals perhaps helped the companies win the contracts so that they, the gener als, could obtain high-income jobs after retirement. In other words, the editors think a conflict of interest exists when a man's desire for future private employ ment might affect his performance of official duties. Conversely, though, couldn't a desire for future fed eral employment influence the actions of an employee of a company which deals frequently with the gov ernment a company like a newspaper? While working for the State Department this sum mer, I learned the department has hired an impres sive number of former reporters, many of whom were, once foreign correspondents. Which raises an embarrassing question: How many newsmen have failed to write critical articles about the State Depart ment because of a possible longing to become a for eign service officer or, perhaps, one of Washington's myriad public "information" specialists? Certainly such ambitions are perfectly natural, considering that keen reportorial instincts are among the traits most highly valued by foreign service personnel ex perts who, along with personnel men in other federal agencies, know that the best public information spe cialists are those experienced at countering the news management of public information specialists. In fact, the federal government already has Jiired so many information specialists that one observer only partly facetiously says he worries whether Wash ington has enough competent reporters left to throw away the press releases prepared by their former col leagues. 1 Of course, not all of these conflicts of interests are present at the federal level. For instance, the city hall reporter who becomes a park commissioner or highway official is as much a part of American poli tics as the political writer who takes time out from his newspaper duties during the election to ghost speeches for a local congressional candidate. Is this right? Is this ethical? I myself feel that familiarity with, government is such an important asseftb a' newsman that conflict-of-interest complications should not rule out his tak ing or considering a government job; otherwise, I would not have worked for the State Department this summer. But when public affairs reporters think about getting on the public payroll, they should at least be certain that their career ambitions do not interfere with their present responsibility which is to inform the public of the government's shortcomings as well as its successes. Advertising Airplanes Dangerous For Fans At the time this editorial was written there was no way of predicting precisely what the weather for today's game will be. But going on the assumption that it won't be raining, football fans in Kenan Me morial Stadium will once again be entertained by the performing airplanes above the stadium as much as by this year's team. It never occurred to us before, but these single engine emissaries of Madison Avenue actually consti tute a considerable danger to the Saturday afternoon crowed. Have you ever stopped to think what would hap pen if one of those planes ever by chance was to land in the laps of 45,000 persons ? The blow of such an experience would certainly be a lot more severe than any enranged Jim Gardner supporter or Jesse Jones sausage wielder might inflict. Consider also that these planes, which are pow ered by one prop only, are carrying cables several hundred feet long behind them as well as their signs. These cables could easily foul a small engine or snap a propeller. We don't know at this time what advertising com pany hires these airplanes out, but we do know this: Last football game there were no less than three planes circling Kenan Stadium, two pulling their ob noxious advertising behind them. One of the planes, if our ears and knowledge of such things is not in error, was having a bit of trouble. If one of those planes ever falls onto the football field, you can be sure that it won't just be Jim Gard ner and Jesse Jones that will suffer. The advertising company responsible for all this would be well ad-: vised to discontinue such operations. John Greenbacker Letters The Daily Tar Heel accents nil ioo it.- Ration provided they are typed and double-spaced. u.tu, ue , Lunger man 300 words in length. i 7 a At 4l t. m ... r ui rigni io eait for libelous statements.
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