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Tuesday. March 7, 1967
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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Peter Harris
The Pill: The first step leads the innocent coed
to sin and ruin.
The Moralists:
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SCOTT GOODFELLOW. EDITOR
Responsibility In University
Life Frequently Thwarted
(This week marks the appear
ance of a series of editorials on
responsibility in the University
community student, faculty and
administrative. During this week
the series will discuss problems
involved in a) the honor system
b) the "cut system" c) required
courses d) the eight o'clock class
d) and campus code jurisdiction.)
At the mention of the word Re
sponsibility, everyone cringes, for
some of the dullest, most mundane
lectures follow.
But in our case we mean by
responsibility aims of this Univer
sity regarding students, faculty,
and administration. Many of these
aims are being thwarted by ill
conceived regulations and guide
lines which are wholly incompati
ble with better teaching and
learning standards.
There are two main student
responsibilities. The first is to
learn, for higher education should
be an educational experience. The
second is to develop an open mind
so that learning will not come to
a dead halt the moment that the
diploma is awarded. In a way, the
second responsibility is more im
portant than the first, for much of
what you learn in a given class is
lost within a few months.
To open a student's mind, to
eliminate prejudices, to instill a
curiosity, that is the game. But too
often we find that the rules for
this game are wrong. They are
actually the rules to decreased re
sponsibility, and consequently to
the narrowing of a student's out
look. Likewise, the responsibility of
the faculty is a pragmatic one. It
must do whatever is necessary to
help students develop an uncon
fined viewpoint while giving them
the facts upon which to practice.
This principle is also thwarted by
vague administrative guidelines,
and by some faculty members
who do not realize the intent of
the guidelines.
The situation is one where an
attitude must be changed. The
change will, be a difficult one,
since the established view of Zoco
parentis and their related attitud
es are well entrenched. In coming
issues of the Daily Tar Heel, we
will examine a number of specific
situations which must be altered
if a proper attitude of student re
sponsibility is to be reached.
You Can't Knock 3rd Best
It is always good, whatever
the season, to give credit for
a job well done. If for nothing
else, such credit advises a
team that its work has not
gone unnoticed, and is appre
ciated. Such credit is' due, perhaps
overdue, the University u of
No r t h Carolina " basketball""
" team, ' currently, according "to P
the national polls, the third
best team in the nation.
Even before the season be
gan, it was the opinion of At
lantic Coast Conference sports
writers and sportscasters that
this 1966-67 edition of Tar Heel
basketball could easily be one
of the better editions in recent '
years. Their reasoning was
based on three sophomores
6-8 Bill Bunting and 6-11 Rusty
Clark, the two big men Coach
Dean Smith has needed for so
long for rebounding strength,
and 6-3 guard Dick Grubar. In
addition, the talents of Bob
Lewis and Larry Miller, of
Tom Gauntlett and Mark
Mirken, were clearly estab
lished a year ago. '
These players, and others,
have made the prognosticators
look like true prophets. They
won nine consecutive games,
these Tar Heels, before they
tasted defeat. They defeated
Duke twice in one season, a
rarity for Carolina teams of
recent vintage. They are shoot
ing nearly 50 per cent an
awesome figure as a team.
And they have won 21 of 25
games, an impressive record.
Thursday in Greensboro's
Coliseum, this Tar Heel team
will begin a rigorous test that,
should they defeat N. C. State
in the fW. ?me (it would be
. for the third time this season)
will last for three games. It
will indicate, this tournament,
how much pressure Dean
Smith's sophomores can stand
in their run for the ACC title,
a claim they have already
staked in the regular season.
And if their past perform
ances are any indication, UNC
basketball, 1967 style, will
meet that test.
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Credit Is Due
Morrison Residence College is ,
to be commended for the brilliant
operation of their carrier current
radio station, WMO.
Radio stations such as WMO
have been tried all over campus,
but they have never been so suc
cessful. And success means many
things.
It means that students in one
residence college will have a con
tinuing activity, solely in their col
lege, which they may participate
in. It means that there will be a
method of announcing residence
college activities, and promoting
them to each individual.
But most of all, success means
unity in the residence college. It is
the hope of everyone involved that
residence colleges can develop as
strong, separate entities, .with in
creased concern for the indi
viduals within the college.
WMO is a giant step in that
direction.
74 Years of Editorial Freedom
Scott Goodfeilow, Editor
Tom Clark, Business Manager
Sandy Tread well, Manag. Ed.
John Askew ... . .. .. Ad. Mgr.
Peter Harris : Associate Ed.
Don Campbell . .. . News Editor
Donna Reifsnider .... Feature Ed.
Jeff MacNelly . .. .. Sports Editor
'Owen Davis .. .. Asst. Spts. Ed.
Jock Lauterer .. ... . Photo Editor
David Garvin Night Editor
Mike McGowan .... Photographer
Wayne Hurder .. ..... Copy Editor
Ernest, Robl, Steve Knowlton,
Carol Wonsavage, Diane Ellis,
Karen Freeman, Hunter George,
Drummond Bell, Owen Davis,
Joey Xeigh, Dennis Sanders,
Joe Saunders, Penny Raynor,
Jim Fields. Donna Reifsnider
Joe Coltrane, Julie Parke?
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XS- -A g ft V I I ffeY? UM
University Must Prepare
Go-eds For Real World
By JANE HOWARD
The Auburn Plainsman
And where da we go "frorri "
here, girls? Or, in other words
HELP!
That's what Mary Ann, the
female counterpart of Joe Col
lege is saying to herself. She's
21, and in two months she'll
be free from final exams,
term papers, term projects.
There'll be no more beauty
contests, no more student
government, and no more se
curity. She will stand on the brink
of life itself, with a diploma
clutched tightly in her hands,
a huge questionmark on her
mind, and harsh reality star
ing her in the face.
For 21 years, her parents,
her teachers, and Mary Ann
herself, have tried to prepare
this entity of a young woman
for the big day. When she
was in high school, everyone
said, "That girl is going
places." Mary Ann had am
bition. She didn't marry her
high school flame like many
of her friends. She came to
college ... to seek a career,
to make herself worthy for
the world, so she could help
make the world more worthy.
But about halfway through
her college years, a realization
came to Mary Ann. She looked
around and saw that many of
her freshman buddies weren't
there any more. They had got
ten married. Most of those
who hadn't were talking about
it.
And Mary Ann wondered.
Perhaps she said to herself,
"Well, maybe I . might want
a husband, home and children
some day. But I'm not ready
to settle down to diaper duty
right now. There's too much
I can do places to go, things
to see and I can't do them
after I'm tied down."
But a nagging doubt had
wormed its way inside that
self - confidence. Mary
Ann passed up her share of
eligible young men, but she
, always wondered.
And now, about two years
later, that nagging doubt
comes back to haunt her as
she is on the threshold of grad
uation. What next? She's been
seeking true freedom for 21
years, awaiting its arrival
from under a warm blanket
of security. Suddenly the cov
ers are rudely thrown back
and when her feet hit the floor,
Mary Ann realizes . it's kinda
cold, and desperately wishes
she could climb back in.
For a decision is at hand,
and the questions begin to a
rise: "Is the career, the tra
vel, the excitement, the chal
lenge, and the satisfaction in
the knowledge of the worth of
one's work really worth the
cold competition, the hard
facts of facing the world along,
buying one's own supper and
facing, a blank wall as , you . ..
eat it, and coming home at -
relight to;.- -an empty -and, dark - ; ;
-apartment? . :.; .. , 4 ,.
Mary Ann, and most like
her, thinks it would be worth
if for a while. There's an ele
ment of glamour involved that
looks mighty attractive. But
then there are those statistics
which show- that the longer a
girl stays unmarried, the less
are cher chances of finding a
mate.
Other things bother Mary
Ann too. She picks up a paper
and reads about the Boston
Strangler and those nurses who
were killed.
"Goodness, can I take care
of myself in a world like this?"
she asks. All her life there
has been somebody around to
look after Mary Ann and rules
to protect her. Suddenly they're
hot there anymore, and it's
an abrupt change.
When "she's faced with all
this, the thought of the secu
rity of a home, a man she
can love and children she can
rear looks very warm and
bright. And the sum of the
whole is known as "senior
panic." Mary Ann is likely to
engage herself in an urgent
search to find someone, in
stead of something, on whom
she can bestow her all, some
one with whom she can share
the rest of her life, but most
of all, someone to hold her
hand and take care of her. .
The search, in itself, is prob
ably inevitable in the end, be
cause most women want mar
riage some day. But the sud
den urgency of it often leads
a woman to act too quickly,
and five years later she day
dreams among diapers about
what might have been, and
takes her disappointment, frus
tration and feelings of incom
pleteness out on her puzzled
husband and children.
And there you have it
"The Dilemma of the Edu
cated Woman" ... a dilemma
which has arisen since col
lege education became, first,
not unusual for the female of
the species, and then, the ac
cepted thing. Mary Ann comes
to college with visions of a
bright career in an exciting
and challenging field, and a
little glamour and romance
thrown in to boot. She receives
excellent training toward the
end, and she graduates as a
primed vessel of knowledge
totally unfamiliar with the
waters in which she will have
to sail.
The problem doesn't have
to be one. Society is prepar
ing women educationally for
a developing new role in the
cause it realizes the potential
which women hold for the
working forces. But society
has forgotten to gear women
emotionally, as it does their
brothers, for this role. - x
Women are sheltered fronv
the moment they are, born.
Most of their decisions are
made for them. There is much
they aren't told, "because you
don't need to know." And when
they sit down to think through
their talents and abilities and
toward the betterment of them
selves and the world, they can
do it objectively because they
. don't know what's outside, that
veil.
Many women would never r
attempt to prepare themselves
.for a career if they knew what
the working world is like. A
job is not for them, but they
may very well become the
best wives and mothers the
world has known.
Other find that they do not
want a life career, but feel
the need to be of value to
something other than their
homes and families. Had they
known this earlier, they could
have received education in a
field offering an opportunity
for a job which wouldn't de
mand complete dedication and
could be happily combined
with marriage had they
known.
There are others who would
love the independent life, but
whose destiny lies in a field
where women do not have to
complete with men, such as
home economics or teaching.
And there are those who would
love the upward struggle, the
constant competition, the sa
crifices of a "woman in a
world of men." If these wo
men had known, they could
have better prepared them
selves for such a rule ... if
thev had known.
Women can not be coddled
and protected by rigamarole
and rules until they are 21
and expect to be able to handle
the situations they will encoun
ter when thev are suddenly
turned loose. When you're not v
allowpd to make choices, you
lose the ability to do so. And
we can't expect to find their
star and follow it if we don't
show them the sky first.
So we need to end this "pro
tection" of women, which is
in reality the most dangeous
thing we do for them. It's like
raising a baby bunny beside
your warm oven until it be
comes a full-grown rabbit, and
then sending it to freedom. It
can't survive without the right
preparation and so it comes
running back to your, doorstep
again, yet it will whine and
. pine because it knows it's
missing something.
America will continue to
have problems with Mary Ann,
far-reaching ones, unless we
prepare her and ourselves in
more ways than one for this
new role of women which has .
suddenly appeared on the '
scene.
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T)
amine Your Faith
The pill controversy illustrates how an issue can
become blown-up out of proportion through the atten
tion it receives from the national press services.
Yet the interesting result of this often serious
sometimes humorous debate has been the exposure
of a rather disturbing underlying neuroticism which
haunts the minds of too many antiquat
. . ed American "moralists' people bet
ter referred to as self-righteous do-gooders
who feel that the true-blue, clean
living "upstanding" experiences, void
of exploration, are the most rewarding
for the individual. .
These people take the stand that the
youth of today are injuring themselves
by being exposed to new, diversified
and honest experiences because youth
will regret their mistakes in twent y
years. Obviously, these people know sometmng we
don't about guilt complexes.
Some moralists" defend their reasoning through
religious pomposity, while others become so heated in
their moral hypocrisy that they are forced to write our
editor obscene letters too disgusting by journalistic
standards to re-print in the DTH.
To think of the reaction we would receive if those
letters were reprinted would be astounding. Surely, the
moralists would faint dead.
The cry which amazes this columnist is the one
which refers to the clean-living "individual' V
Clean-living people are often very happy and can
be as individualistic as anyone but for them to preach
the gospel restricting experience, the gospel of moral
conformity without question, is to deny the individual
his rights to a free "pursuit of happiness."
As a wise man once said, "how can a person know
light until he sees darkness"; or, how can a person
truly know how he wants to live his life unless he tastes
a bit of each side of life.
The purity preachers are cock-sure that their ideal
way of life is destined to be the most fulfilling. Many
of them have no right preaching this code because they
have not had the interest to explore the other side of
the coin. They are content to-remain isolated from
what is to them a dirty world. Either they are the
world's worst provincialists in thought, or else they
are the world's blindest conformists.
Most of my generation understands the glory arid
excitement of exploration in many areas. Provincial
ity no matter if it is geographical or intellectual has
been seen time and time again as an absurd, restric
tive doctrine which makes very little sense in the con
text of our present world.
If there is a "generation gap" as Senator Mondale
and Walter Lippman (among others) propose then it
is perhaps most clearly expressed in the area of social
experience.
To any person who has had the opportunity to trav
el, it becomes quite obvious that the "Old South" is
dying. It is those people who claim to uphold the inno
cence of the traditional South who are least in touch
with our times. These people are not the kids from the
South, for the most part, because it is quite obvious
that once away from the strangle holds of small town
talk and strictness, young people will open up to pro
gressive change and exploration as readily as almost
any group in the nation.
The problem is with the dying tradition.
It should be understood that social exploration does
not, in most cases, mean the seeking out of mind
drugs or big city prostitutes. This isn't what the youth
of today is searching for. We are searching for hon
esty beyond what we are merely told. We are search
ing for results which will inevitably be more reward
ing than those which too many of our elders sought.
To break away from binding restrictions does not
mean breaking down society from within. To believe
that society has been held together for centuries by a
"Christian" morality is absurd; indeed, it grossly un
derestimates the strength of our culture.
If our culture cannot stand the stress of honest ex
amination, then it does not deserve to survive. But it
does deserve to survive.
When purity-preachers speak of faith, they would
do well to examine more closely their own faith and
what it really means in a social context.
People today must do what they feel is best for
them. This is bound to be the most healthy aspect
of an ideal free society.
The History Of Presidents
By Otelia Connor
No buildings were erected
during President Winston's ad
ministration. He left here to
go to Texas as President of
the University of Texas. From
Texas he went to Raleigh as
President of A and M College,
now State College. He took on
the demoninational Colleges,
Wake Forest,- Davidson, and
Trinity; in the state that were
opposed to the Legislature ap
propriating funds for the Uni
versity, because they thought
it would hurt the private col
leges. Winston won this fight.
As a result, more students
went to private colleges than
ever before because the Uni
veristy trained teachers who
enabled more qualified stu
dents to enter the colleges.
President Alderman was a
gifted platform speaker. He
worked with Mclver and Ay
cock to establish public schools
in the state. The first public
high schools were built in 1907.
President Alderman's main
contribution to the campus was
the "rebuilding of the old Well
in 1897, patterned after tha
Temple of Love at Versailles,
and he had reproduced over
the north doorway of South
Building a replica of the fine
doorway over Westover, a no
ble home on the James. He
wanted to bring some beauty
to the drabness of the campus
architecture." "A thing of
beauty is a joy forever." Pre
sident Alderman left for the
Presidency of Tulane Univer
sity in New Orleans. From
there he went on to the Pre
sidency of the University of
Virginia.