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Pnns 2 the daily tar heel : Tuesday. February 6, 1033 ft Harris o fr a. praru.m of dertoit'.vify Winin3 ITT O i 75 Years of Editorial Freedom Bill Amlong, Editor Don Walton, Business Manager The Disputed Authority Over Red Clay Puddles Know what red clay is? It's the thick film of dust on cars when the sun is out and the polka dot splatters on cars when it rains. Know where it comes from? Roads that aren't paved mostly, and driveways that aren't graveled. Surely in North Carolina though there isn't such a pro blem. You know, the North Carolina where they keep pav ing and repaving I-85's. But then, the I-85's are traveled by mostly adult-type people not student-type peo ple like in Chapel Hill. Its sort of funny, if your sense of humor fancies irony, that in a small place like Chapel Hill, where there are probably more cars per cubic inch of ground than anywhere else in the state, that such a large number of roads remain unpaved. Some of the main thoroughfares are paved so to speak like highways 54 and 86. But around behind the dormitories, where isn't quite as conspicous, lurk the plains of red clay which puddle up in the rain. The wide red clay paths that run behind dorms like paths are a hazard to every axle that dares to venture on to them. Its like ha v i n g to maneuver an obstacle course with the holes, gullies and abysses that put character in to the road between the tennis courts and cemetery off Coun try Club Road. Connor's Housemother, Mrs. Graham Ramsey described the route to her parking place as a "sea of mud," "a corduroy road," and more succintly as "wretched." "It throws the wheels out of alignment," she com plained. The general disgruntled feelings about the state of the back "driveway," found ex pression last night in a peti tion circulated at midnight hall meetings in Connor. David Wilborn, a Connor graduate counselor, drew up the petition Monday and plans to circulate it to Alex ander and Winston dormitories today. The reported casualties from the road have been one broken axle and multiple alignment jobs. One Connor coed said she had her wheels aligned seven times. Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor Fred Huebner, Managing Editor Wayne Hurder, Neics Editor June Orr, Assistant News' Editor Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager The petition is to be pre sented to Walter Hamilton, di rector of the physical plant, as soon as it has accumulated enough names. But early yes terday there was" some dis pute as ,to whether he had the authority to pave the road. Hamilton said that it was a city road since it was an ac cess road to the cemetery. Town manager Robert H. v Peck said that he thought it was under University jurisdiction. While the contradiction of authority has continued over the past months, however, the residents of the dorms have had to traverse the red clay gap. The jurisdiction is ir revelant to those who travel the road. The important thing is getting it fixed. Peck said that the Univer sity "ought to get involved in the pavement" of the road since it mainly accommodat ed students. Hamilton replied 'there has always been this conflict, over., whether it was ;or. t. wasn't' a city street. He pro- " mised that a motor grader would try to reshape the road in the next couple of days and that the physical plant would "probably regravel the road after the rain." The regraveling doesn't work very well though. The road was regraveled and rais ed two or three feet when the tennis courts were paved last spring, but the gravel has gone and so has the road into holes. Hamilton said that the physical plant would be glad . to do something about the paving if the road was truly under University jurisdic tion. It can only be hoped that someone finds out whose is the responsibility and soon The controversial limits of ci ty or not in a university town sometimes make mountains out of those proverbial molehills. Until someone claims the molehill though, and stops pointing their finger at the other side, the mud puddles and the gullies and the abysses continue to grow. No matter whose baby this is, someone had better acknowledge custody before the March rains totally flood the red clay strip. Three-forths of a block of pavement would be a lot cheaper than financing a fer ry service for the months of March and April. ' 1 . Q Letters To The Editor V i 4-2 EaiMy To The Editor;: The other day I went to see The Comedians, playing (at The Carolina Theater. The movie was about terrorism in Haiti under the.. brutal Duvalier regime. The movie reminded me first of Nazi Germany and then reminded me of another p&ce Chapel Hill, N. C. The Chapel Hill police have packed out certain persons they do not like and are subjecting them to a vicious harassment. Several nights ago, at 3:00 A.M., in the morning, two squad cars pulled up in front of a certain nxMniing house. Six of-' 'leers, including one detective, sur rounded the house and began to pound on the doors of each apartment, waking and terrifying everybody. The officers bad ho search warrents. They gained admission to some of the apartments by alleging that they were searching for a runaway girl, "only fifteen years old won't you please help us?" In most cases they merely pushed their way in after the " , frightened occupant bad initially opened . tbedoor.to find out. what, was going on. . "" 'Predictably, no "runaway jiiveniile ' was ' found, but the poJice did encounter a few oMer girls who were spending the weekend with their - boyfriends. These couples -were hauled out of the house, ar rested for cotobitaitJoin, and made to fork over $200 for bail bonds. Everyone knows that the laws against coihabitation are nearly a dead letter. They are so rarely enfiorced that their en forcement against any particular person . signifies an intent to harass and persecute this individual. Cohabitation. is quite common in Chapel Hill; it is also quite safe, providing you're a nice boy. But if you're a long-baired bohemian, then the laws against coihabitation are us ed to harass you and drive you out of Chapel Hill. It would be ridiculous for anyone to assert ; that the cops merely stumbled "upon these couples while they were searching for the alleged runaway. 'It does not require an elaborate pre-dawn raid with 2 squad cars, five patrolmen and one detective to look for a single teenage girl. The policemen bulled their . way into every occupied room ande ager ly inquired into the imarital status of each couple. One married couple of my ac quaintance was ordered to produce documents certifying their marriage. letters The Daily Tar Heel accepts all letters for publication provided they are typed, double - spaced and signed. Letters should be ho longer than 300 words in. length. We reserve the right to edit for libelous statements. The Daily Tar Heel is published by the University of North Carolina Student Publication's Board, daily except Mondays, examinations periods and vacations. Offices are on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone numbers: editorial, sports, new s 933-1011; business, circu lation, advetising 933-1163. Address Box 1080. Chapel Hill, N.C., 27514. Second class postage paid at U.S. Post Office in Chapel Hill N.C. Subscription rates: S9 per year; $5 per semester. ,,nS The noney J PMce Gull Last summer, another coirple was ar rested for cohaMtation. In this case, three palicemen actually refused to tem porarily leave the room while the girl got dressed. They stayed there, grinning, gig gling, and ogline Chapel HiUls finest! Last weekend was not the first time the police have visited this particular house. Before they left Saturday night, they warned one of the occupants that they'd be back. No doubt they will, since they regularly and systematically harass 'these persons. The knock-on-the-door-at-night is not a monopoly of Communist or Nazi totalitarianism. There are legions of liberals among the Chapel HiU citizenry and UNC faculty, who rush to the aid of any beleaguired peacenik or left-wing radical, but are noticeably indifferent to the open harassment of nonrpolitical scapegoats. One. is forced to conclude that Chapel Hill - "liberals" approved of such goings on. Tom Bobbins Graduate Student ... . , Sociology Department Otelia Pleased To The Editor: WeM, I have been so busy since November that I haven't written, but I am still whacking heads, mainly about elbows on the table when eating, though there is much improvement along this line; pencils behind the ears, and cutting across on tthe sidewalks in front of a person, instead of crossing behind. I feel like putting out my foot and tripping them over. There is much improvement at Graham Memorial about scratching up the table tops with shoes, though the tops are terrible scarred by how. Steve Knowlton Bom ih C&impms Mmim EDruum SOUTH CAMPUS They sit out here, four of them, neat, modem, cold, full of people. , , The are built in nesting box structure because that is economical and the peopleper-square foot figure is im portant. A little box holds two people and there' are four little boxes structured into a bigger, rectangular box. On each side of the rectanguTar box there is another just like it and it's the same with the floor above and below. If the overall structure is called Mor rison or James, you can get 1,000 people more or less into it. If it's Ehringhaus or Craige, the limit is about 600. , , Assuming that South Building is more or less the center of the University cam-pus-nat least in a geographical sense these four are almost a mile away and those people jammed in out here spend over an hour a day walking to and from their beds, their books, their study That's what goes on out here. 3,500 beds, 3500 private libraries of text, and anti-boredom books and 3500 desks. There's also a cafeteria that's open during mealtimes only. It's called Chase Cafeteria for the want of a better name and under the eating floor tbere are two rooms with lots of pictures of past University presidents and the like hang ing on the walls. These great visages of the past look austere and unfeeling as they sfcre down en the overstuffed but modern furniture and the slick floors. The rooms are always empty because there's no reason to go in them. , . , . In the four buildings which have the beds, there are various televisions which ' s.j f s - nop 1? Cow'ec , tocxM and 1 vun.r HOD jQarj f - oa.nac To During the Christmas holiday a stu dent spoke to me on main street and ask ed me if I remembered him? He said he waited on tables at Lenoir and was now teaching in Wisconson. I told him I bad 14,000 children and I just couldn't remember individuals. He asked about my manners crusade . and he remarked ' The students may talk about you when they are here, but when they leave, they appreciate you." That's good enough for me. I was pleased when a town woman, who reads my writings phoned me and asked if I heard Goldwater speak? I said, "No." She said he raved over the students . manners here, and so did Humphrey! I told here I was glad to hear it, that many situdents tell me the man ners are much better here than at the sections from which they come. I gladly share the credit with the students, for if I didn't have such fine children, there is not much I could do for them. Otelia Connor : Miller Defended To The Editor: Congratulations for presenting such an eloquent satire on Larry -Miller in the DTH, February 1. Our compliments to Mr. Green's wit and humor. Also, we sympathize with Larry for suffering such a "jeu d'esprit." We ad mire Larry's outstanding athletic ac complishments, but we would like to think that he is not the STUDacious nin nyhammer he appears to be in the arti cle. A. M. Hallmark A. E. Milloy 330 Morrison are always turned on because watching television is something to do and things like that are rare out here. There are also four snack bars, which now have magazine racks to stand around and a pool table apiece so four people per building can play pool if they want to. There are also social rooms scattered around some on each floors. But they usually turn into study rooms, or at least reading rooms, because there's not much eke out here to do. There are people out here. About S500 of them. You can stand over by Chase at 7:30 and at 8:30 a.m. every morning Monday through Saturday and for ten minutes you can see them all because that's when they all go to classes. They come back slowly and in small groups, often alone, all afternoon and they disappear again into the four buildings. In the evenings, you can find them usually in their own room-cages, or in one of a few friends' cubicles; On the weekends they sit around and drink beer and play cards and sometimes get destructive and break windows mostly because the windows are there and it's something to do. SOME HAVE tried to change the whole picture and they have been working on it for five years now, but successes come slowly and spradica'iy because what they're fighting can't be overcome with an occasional chess tournament or a combo party the weekend. Roger Davis and A. D. Frazier worked on it in Craige and what they came up with they called the Maverick House. But 7 p To The Editor: ; Your description of Carson's ques tioning of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison as "provincial political thinking" disturbs me; it leads me to wender if you really understood what Carson was up t). My impression was that he tried merely to inject some degree of rationality into the flamboyant D. As campaign to indict "the Adniinistratjon" for complicity in the murder of President Kennedy. He did so by posing a few reasonable objections to Garrison's contentions. First, Garrison n-t only has c!aimed that "President Kennedy was shot by the CL," as you state, but also that such diverse factions as communists, anti Castroiies, John Birchers, etc., as well as the U. S. Government "shot" President Kennedy is it too much to ask that he explain these contentions, which on their face are so inconsistent as to border oa the ludicrous? And was Carson wrong in refusing to accept Garrison's statements of "fact" as being valid on their face, without any evidence to back them up? I am not prepared to accept wholeheartedly the government's version of what occured as accurate, either. But to accept what this man says as true merely because he says it is (and, I suspect, because it is novel) requires a leap of faith I am unwilling to attempt The "demigod of the fete-night T. V. wxn-ld" may have lost, all right, but if so only to that demagogue of sensa tionalism, Jim Garrison. Frank Goldsmith School of Law Apathy Slain To The Editor: The March on WRC was a success. Women students made it clear to their representatives that they wanted to be given the chance to act as responsible people. The feeling demonstrated Tuesday night was not new; neither was the issue. Many students have wanted to do something about women's rules for some time. The blame for apathy should rest on many. But the point is that something has been done. . Someone took the responsibility for organizing the women students and convincing them that something could be done. Karen Freeman got enthusiastic, talk ed to a lot of people, made a lot of posters, and was rewarded for her pains by the sight of about 500 previously im movable Carolina Coeds turning up on a rainy night to show that they do care. Lots of people have thought about something like this; Karen took on the job and succeeded. Maybe the rest of us can take it from here. Julia McMillan 810 Granville Towers Roger died in an automobile accident two years ago which was ruled suicide and Frazier moved on to law school and into the new Morrison. There A. D. and a sociologist named Chuck Longine got together with a couple of undergraduates named Byron McCoy and John Ellis to try again to combat the peril cf separation, of loneliness. There were lots of parties, more attempts at destroying the isolation. Some of them worked. . Jar a .';ew students. The McCoy regime passed on to that of Ellis and this year the baton was pass ed to the third of the triumvirate, Parker Hudson. A new structure was thrown up farther away and .anoiher member of the McCoy-Ellis crew, B31 Earrah, took over leadership, along with A. D. Frazier who came over to the new James from Ehr inghaus as a third year law student and housemaster. It's sort of a continum and they're still trying. Some days, there's the optomism that they're actually getting somewhere, in spite of the physical layout of the four, collections of boxes. Sometimes, there almost seems to be the feeling that a few cf the students forced to sleep and study out here are begCnning to feel that they actually live out here. The hope may be growing little by little in spite of the many setbacks when Hudson and Darrah and the rest feel that it doesn't make any difference and they want to give it all up. But they won't give up probably, and perhaps someday, probably a long way off, they will realize their dreams of hav? ing 3500 people on South Campus, who don't constantly wish that they weren't here.
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