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-i '-4nj ot --.gj "Ks 1 -. - - M Page 2 THK DAILY TAR HEET- Wednesday, November 30, 1966 Jfe Our Opiu ion . . . Let's Get Off The Fence e're Getting Saddle Sore Letters To The Editor W When Athletic Director Chuck Erickson said Monday "We want the best possible man who can do the job," he was speaking with a forked tongue. Not the forked tongue of an untruthful paleface, but the forked tongue that has been licking both sides of the fence our athletic department has strad dled for too long. Either UNC should get "the best possible man" to run its grid iron operations, or it should get a "man who can do the job." One way or the other, it is time to de cide. Time to decide what will be the course of athletics at UNC and, to a great extent, what will be the course of athletics in the Atlantic Coast Conference. For the past eight years, we have had a "man who could do the job." The point of controversy lies in just what that job has been. He has produced annually a suf ficient number of students-in-good-standing, physically able and suit ably clad to participate in inter collegiate football contests. He hafe seen to it that the players get on the bus and go to the Carolina The ater for a movie every Friday be fore a home game. He has, at one time or another, defeated every team in the Atlantic Coast Confer ence. He has also, at the direction of the athletic department, put his boys on airplanes and taken them to games with Big Ten teams and other nationally prominent foot ball squads. Perhaps this is the point of controversy. Are we playing in the ACC or the NCAA? Are we traveling to Louisville, South Bend, Ann Arbor because we can compete in other leagues or because we can draw heavy gate receipts there? We are not against tangling with the big-name football powers not if we have a chance to win. But our athletic department is sit ting on the fence. Our team is playing big-time football with a small-time philosophy . small time from the standpoint of coach es, recruitment and academic standards for athletes. We can't turn our backs to the reality any longer. Face the facts. Football is not a game of intellec tuals. The politest coach doesn't always win. Signing up students for grants-in-aid and signing up Morehead Scholars involve two different approaches and sets of criteria. We think it's time to decide which route we want to take. If we want to stay at home in the ACC, that's one thing. If, on the other hand, we want to be a col legiate football power and find a place in a bowl game from time to time, that's another. And we. might as well adjust to what goes along with being in the "big-time." (Tomorrow: How our choice of a coach will affect the ACC.) Personally Speaking You Know What To D Big GOP Gains Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Since I am an alumnus of the class of '65, though mo mentarily self - exiled by my former NROTC affiliations to ( among many other places equally remote) a fishing vil lage 11,000 miles from "the Southern part of Heaven," my thoughts are quite often with the students and residents of Chapel Hill and the citizens of North Carolina. As one who played a mi nor role in Carolina politics as a student, it was with avid interest that I listened to the first election return over Armed Forces Radio while in the Philippines a week ago, and burned with impatience as we crossed the nws - emp ty South China Sea to the west ern coast of South Vietnam to discover the final results of our U. S. and North Carolina Congressional and guberna torial elections. As a staunch Republican of pronounced reactionary tend enies, my joy in the elec tion returns will be readily un derstood. Though I was heart ened by the election returns across the nation, with the victories of such fine Repub . licans as Charles Percy of Illinois, Ronald Reagan of Cali fornia, and George Romney of Michigan (and with great glee Bob Griffin's Senate victory over Soapy Williams), I was particularly delighted to learn of the GOP's success in the South, a success not based on the outmoded appeals of ra cism and welfarism, but on the appeals to a new and vi brant Southland, appeals for vigorous progress to meet the challenges of the future, yet not appeals based1 on the de magogy of instant prosperity, instant peace, and instant eq uality, (all of course at no cost) preferred by the expo nents of the Great Society. Despite the setbacks of 1964, John Greenbarker H the Republican victory in the South should come as no sur prise to the politically cogno scenti. Though there are some so set in the ways of their grandfathers that they cannot see the future until it becomes the present, with every pass ing year, it becomes more and more obvious that the once solid South is solid no more, that the "Vigorous Democrat Party of yesteryear is mori bund today, and that the impotent-Southern GOP of the first half of- the 20th Century is growing as rapidly as the new commerce which is spur ring the Southern renaissance. It is a fact which cannot be denied, that a political party, to gain and perpetuate its pow er, must not lose touch with the sources of political stregth, which, in a democracy, is the people. The mounting successes of the Republicans and the cor responding defeats of the Dem ocrats amply illustrate this axiom, for the Democrats have lost touch with the citizenry of the South, and the Repub licans, at long last; are show ing Southerners that they real ly don't have two horns and a tail. Everywhere throughout the South, we see demonstra tions of a growing Republi can strength, of an ever in creasing disillusionment with the empty promises of a worn out Democrat Party, and the 1966 elections, with the gains registered by the GOP, are the most pronounced illustra tion to date: Arkansas a governor and a representative; Florida a governor and a representative; Georgia two. representatives and an unheard of possibility for governor; Kentucky - two representatives; Maryland a governor and a representa tive; Oklahoma a represen tative; Tennessee a sena tor and a representative; Tex as two representatives, Vir- GOP SweeiO) Off. SortE Predicted. o Dirty Old Men Show With'That Plane Ticket! Contempt Fdi- wbsii en "We", the editorial "we", are not writing about anything that has us up set today. But "I", the editorial "I", am. ;: I can stand it no longer. Either I un : lease this personal vendetta, or the Stu dent Government Activities Fund office will.be the death of me as a result of internal combustion. I don't expect to be able to get any thing changed. In fact, I will probably do no more than make it rougher for our business manager who has to bar gain with that office for our money. But I just want to tell someone. It's all about this "Requisition Sys tem" that has been employed this year. The business manager, Tom Clark, and I spent a month last spring drawing up our budget for this year. We spent hours arguing with the Publications board about it. The Pub Board spent hours arguing with the Finance Com mittee about it. Student Legislature spent nearly as long arguing with it self about it. But finally we got our money. At least that's what we thought. Then we came back to school this " fall and met, face to face, the Requisi tion System. We're trying to put out a newspaper up here on the second floor of Graham Memorial. We do a lot of typing; so ; ;we use copy paper and typewriter rib bons. We stick bits and pieces of stories together; so we use a few bottles of rubber cement. All the news doesn't happen in Cha pel Hill; so we have to make some long distance telephone calls. We have to take our copy to the Chapel Hill Weekly for publishing, and we have to travel around the greater Chapel Hill area for news and advertising purposes; so we have truck trouble, an occasional flat tire, and sometimes we run out of gas. These things used to be no problem. We had a charge account with a local stationer and a credit card at a local filling station. We got our phone bill every month, and we paid it. This year, before we can buy a ream of paper, a ruler, a bottle of glue, a pencil, a gallon of gasoline or anything, we have to get a price quoted from the retailer, trot back up to the Stu dent Government Activities Fund of fice and get a requisition for the exact sum of the purchase (including three per cent sales tax, heavens yes), then go back and make our charged pur chase. And get the procedure we have to go through to make a long distance call: "Hello, operator. This is Randolph Hearst at 933-1011. I want to call Las Vegas, area code 718, 246-8012." "Thank you, sir." "Oh, and operator, would ycu please call me back at the conclusion of this call and tell. me how much it cost. . No, I'm not kidding. And please in clude the tax in that amount. . .No, Ma'am I'm . not trying to be smart. . . Please, operator, don't cut me off. You see, we have this Requisition System. I've lived with this nonsense all year, and I've been respectful of my elders and kept my mouth shut. But yesterday brought the crowning blow. The afore said Tom Clark walked into my office and said, "Fred, would you try to find your old plane ticket , from the Phila delphia trip? The Activities Fund office doesn't believe we spent $53 for the roundtrip." Holy dollar sign! That doesn't irri tate me too much. I have never been known to lie, cheat, steal or embezzle. I have never been the defendent in an Honor Council trial, although I have appeared as a character witness twice, both of which times the person in who behalf I appeared was acquitted. And Eastern has never been fa mous for its abundance of weekend flights from D. C. to Raleigh - Durham so I don't understand why it should be hard to believe that Tom and I were unable to get tourist reservations for the return trip and had to pay first class fare. The Associated Collegiate Press Con ference was held more than a month ago. I don't even remember the name of the girl I tried to get up to my hotel room, nd I certainly don't recall what I did with an old Eastern Airlines tic ket stub. But I will look for it; I will find it; and I will bring it in. Oh, and while I'm at it, Activities Fund office, I will bring in another ticket stub. ' You see, Tom and I missed the Eastern flight out of Raleigh-Durham and had to pay $1.21 out of our pockets to get the reservations transferred to United. How 'bout a refund? Fred Thomas. 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Fred Thomas, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Scott Goodfellow, Managing Ed. The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of Nortn" 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; $8 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N. C This column is addressed solely to the dirty old men of the student body. If you're a woman, don't bother to go any further, because you wouldn't understand. Your confusion, undoubtedly, would be further compounded by rage generat ed from the intemperate lan guage herein, and you would feel compelled to plague yours truly with about five dozen snivelling letters to the editor. If you're a broad, forget it. The last of the nasty old men of the DTH s o u g ht solace a couple weeks ago in the dingy, cramped quarters of Carolina's lecner in resi dence, the dir ty old man from Darien. Both were sartorially re splendent in soiled under wear, and went about the preliminary cere monies of scratching their bel lies and moaning about how they were going bald. The real meat on the agenda was women (Damn them, damn them a thousand times.) They don't give a damn about anything but number one," the lecher growled, and likened them all to female dogs. His tirade was endless and satanic joy to listen to: "Show me a woman and I'll show you the biggest user in the world. Look at 'em on this campus. They won't look twice at a guy unless they think he can make enough money to keep one of 'em on her rear end for the rest of her life." Because he was from the North, the lecher especially couldn't stand the avera ge Southern woman. You guys from New York and Jersey and Connecticut know them: the kind who . laughs at your accent openly without knowing how stupid - sounding hers is. How many times have you wanted to smack one right in the face, get her to scream, pinch her half to death with the woefully idealistic hope that she will say something of consequence besides, "Hey, so good to see y'all?" "Most of the women around here think they're God's gift to the world, 'the lecher lamented. "I had to go all the way up to Sweetbriar to find a girl sharp enough and natu ral enough to laugh if I made a dirty pun. "Around here the women wouldn't catch on, or else they'd give you the fish-eye." The lecher waxed scientific and turned to his fast store of natural observations. "Have you ever noticed how women never have really close friends like men do. If a girl gets friendly with another one, they end up being roommates and instantly start to hate each other. That's because they're in competition. , - "How many women you know would literally cut off their right arm for a friend," he ' asked rhetorically. "Not a damned one. "They're incapable of close affection, except maybe for their kids," he said. "Give a woman a baby, and then she thinks about something other than herself for once. "Most good-looking women haven't a chance in a thou sand to be beautiful until aft er they get to be 30," he con cluded. "That's the time when they've seen a little of life, if they ever have at all." His companion continued to nod in agreement, knowing they had both nearly reached full circle in their evolution. They remembered the time when they were kids and ran after the female of the species like starving dogs after liver. Now they didn't give a damn for that. They were really dirty old men. They groaned with the ages at the sight of Ann-Margaret on the movie poster, turned their head in disgust at the visage of the jaded beauty queen and felt the tired con tempt for the well - turned posterior on the dance floor. They knew the women for what they were, and their pride, nurtured from a sea of past humiliation and regret, swelled magnificently to main tain their dignity. Now, when they went to touch the goodies their desire was only to molest. It welled from the festering animosity of, their gnarled souls. Their hearts purified and warmed by hellfire and dam nation, the unholy pair parted with a favorite oath: They dreamed of the day they would renounce it all and be come celibate priests in a Benedictine monastery, doing nothing but making high class booze and getting smashed ev ery night. The last of the nasty old men padded back down the hall. At least for a while the weight of the ages would be stripped away with a nice not shower, a change of clothes, and thMeel of clean sheets againshe too, too unwilling vJ flesh. ginia two representatives; and of course, our own North Carolina, where Jim Gard ner beat Harold Cooley hand ily in a Congressional race he should have won two years ago. Only in Alabama did the GOP lose House seats, but even there three Republican representatives held on to their seats in the face of an otherwise overwhelming Wal lace sweep of the segregation ist vote. In the 16 states which can be considered Southern, (11 from the old Confederacy with Oklahoma, Missouri, Mary land, Kentucky, and West Vir ginia thrown in), the GOP now has 34 House seats as op posed to 20 before the 1966 election, 5 Senate seats against 4, and 4 to 5 governorships (depending on Georgia) against 1 prior to the elec tions. When we consider these startling gains against the vot ing trends in Southern states in previous years, with their steadily mounting GOP vote totals, the conclusion is ines capable the New South is fast becoming a Republican South, and 1966, with its high ly significant results, may well be considered a water shed in Southern and na tional party politics. Ens. Charles B. Neely, Jr. U.S.N.R. An Thoi, Viet Nam Canadian Thanks Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: The Canadian members of the Toronto Exchange enjoyed a highly successful weekend at U.N.C., and we want to thank our Tarheel counterparts deeply. Particularly, we congratu late the co-chairman, Sharon Rose and John Hamilton, for the stimulating, challenging, and constantly entertaining program they presented. In four short days we were ex posed to many facets of U.N.C. life from serious seminars to exciting college football and we have come away enthusi astic, satisfied and anxious for pur reunion in January. Our praise and thanks also Extend to youi: Jenrel;ampus; staff and students ' alike, who consistently went our of their way to welcome and talk with us. To many Canadians, "South ern Hospitality" is a myth, but to your Canadian guests of last weekend, it is a reality, and one which will never be forgotten as a symbol of friend ship between our two univer sities. Jane Watson Perry Arnat , University of Toronto Selling Carolina Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: In reference to comments made concerning the work of the State Affairs Committee in the November 19 article "Leg islature Kills Radio Pro grams," it is not the task of the committee to "appease the state," but rather to attempt to bridge the gap in communi cation which exists between the people of N. C. and the University at Chapel Hill. Because we arc a state supported university, we feel we owe it to the citizens of the state to let them know what goes on at Carolina rath er than allow the image of UNC to be negatively slanted by some of our more vocal elements in North Carolina. It is true that one can see the "merits" and influences of UNC if he will just look around him but many of our citizens are not going to do this on their own. The "merits" of anything are ob vious to those who are con cerned enough to look for them, but many people in North Carolina are not this concerned and won't th i n k , about Chapel Hill until a speaker ban or a Michael Paull confronts them in the headlines. Perhaps the administration should do part of the work the Committee has undertak en. But we as students should not shirk the responsibility that is first our own. The edu-, cational experience at Chapel Hill in the broadest sense is what we are trying to sell to the people of North Carolina. No one knows any better than the student what this is and what it can and should be but won't be unless we cross the barrier of indiffer ence on one side and mis understanding on the other the barrier which limits us as students, the University as a progressive force in the South, and the people of North Caro lina whom it serves. Aliena tion means restraint not freedom. Martha Rainey Member, State Affairs Committee Hypocrite Reformers Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Without discussing the mer its of the recent torrent of criticism heaped on the K. A.'s, I think it's interest ing to note that those who seemingly abhor the use of such terms as "nigger" so readily resort to the use of a term as "grit." . If you continue to -reserve your liberalism and objectiv ity for those with whom you agree, you may as well be forced to turn in your junior social critic and reformer's badge, the consequences of which I'm sure need no elab oration. If your only resort is a lengthy and nausious analogy between yourselves and Soc rates (possibly you would pre fer a more widely followed figure), I suggest you save the time because I'm well aware that but for the differ ence in time and dress (giv ing you as a group the benefit of a doubt) your roles and im portance in society are one and the same. I'll content myself with say ing this much in hopes that you lizards whom the shoe fits will exercise similar re straint. With all due regards to the work you're doing to civilize the K. A.'s in particular and the South in general. Ed Hedrick Poor Spirit Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: On Duke weekend I witnes sed perhaps the poorest dis play of school spirit that I have ever seen. The scene was the Sigma Chi fraternity house and the time was Sat urday morning of the Duke game. As I passed by their house I saw a large white sheet with "Jim Hickey is Dead" printed on it. I will be the first to agree that everyone is entitled to their opinion, no matter how ignorant they may be, but it seems to me that on a day when so much spirit is needed all the way around, a sign like that can do very little good and a great deal of harm. To the Sigma Chi house all I can say is that it is sad that they are so ignorant and so lacking in school spirit that they show it to the world. But I would like to add here that they did prove one out standing point. That the stu dent body is not now and ne ver was behind a very cap able coach who could have gi ven them a great football tra dition. Contrary to the popular be lief around this area among the uninformed, Coach Hic key is not a loser. At least he did not have a losing re cord before he came to UNC. At a high school and a small college in Virginia he had an outstanding record as a head coach. Thus to say he is not capable of producing winning material is completely errone ous. In 1959, Coach Hickey had to take over in the shadow of a man who was highly respec ted and was a great coach. This in itself is no easy task but he did it and he gave it everything that he had. But the U.N.C. supporters did not give him everything they had. Instead they sat back on their haunches and waited to s e e what he could do before they would lend their support. Everyone in the area is rea dy to support a winner and ride the bandwagon but few people will support a possible winner. They would rather rather wait and see if he wins before they join in with their support. c - ? -To think that the player's psychological aspect of play ing is not affected by students, alumni, and other people ma king statements to the effect that their coach is not a good one, is completely off base. It does affect the player's and the coaches both. It is sad. It is very sad be cause the UNC students might have been able to say they have a great coach, just as the students at Notre Dame, Michigan State, Ga. Tech, and other schools can say, but they did not want to support any thing that they were unsure of. It is sad because a truly fine man, and in my opinion a very good coach is leaving. So to the Sigma Chi house I repeat: Your arrogant ig norance is outstanding, to the student body; when we obtain a new coach I hope this time you will turn out and support him along with the rest of the football team before he ever walks on a football field. John Watts is? II' l . wiP? y mm Satv-2 mm ifVt5 ! -' jfvt i x r I V -i. t'i.i S4S1 7 Iff? sirQjssWk- 'Don't Worry, Boy. Wilh This Year's Gate Receipts We Can Buy You The Best Doctors In The State.' 3 i m
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