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THE DAILY TAK HEEL P.V3 2 Wednesday, February 21, 19S3 Wayne Hurder 'if 75 Yczrs cf EditaHd Freedom EIH Amicus, ZdZZsr Ben 7dtcn, Eifegs Mczsgsr Trustees Are Comimi So, Coeds, When you're in a prison, you don't have a lot to say about how your life is run. Generally, it's the same way when you're a student at the : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill especially a coed. Admittedly, students have been granted a few "rights," or at least the right to pretend they have rights such as a student having the right to appear before a council of his peers to be prosecuted for a Campus Code offense which the Administration has charged him with, and which the Administration can reverse the verdict on if it so chooses. This is supposed to keep everybody happy. It doesn't however. Another and a more im-mediate--instance for comparison of this University to a prison, is what happens when VIP's plan a visit. In a prison, all the prisoners are told to be on their best behavior during the visit or they'll be put in solitary confinement. That way, the wardens can make the outside world think they are running nice, happy prisons, full of nice, happy prisoners. I -"It-'Avorks1 about the same way here. For example, a group of women members of the Board of Trustees are coming here to visit Monday. And because of their visit, coeds . are being told to be on their best behavior. Best behavior, in coed l language, means being in the dorm : by 10:30 and being down in the " social room whether you have a quiz the next day or not for a re Don't Stop : From the Raleigh Times The Associated Press, in a dispatch from Washington this week, reports on a dismaying meeting held there recently. The AP reported: "A high official of the Johson administration, meeting privately ; with a group of newsmen, declared some criticism of the war in Viet nam gets close to the question, 'Whose side are you on?' "The official advised newsmen j to stop looking for 'something to 1 bitch about' " said the whole ap paratus of press and broadcasting wouldn't amount to much unless the United States wins." Presumably that unnamed of ficial meant that if the Communists I should take over America, that the : press and broadcasting businesses . would be muzzled. That's true. Leiie, 73. Tfc3 Daily Tar Heel accepts an letters f cx , publication provided they are typed, double - spaced ; End dned. Letters should be no Ucnrcr than 200 words in length. ; We reserve the right to edit for . Uiclcus statements. Pamela Hawkins. Associate Editor Wayne Hurder, Managing Editor Rebel Good, News Editor Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager Shape Up quired house meeting. If they don't, they too will get solitary con finement of sorts, in the form of being campused. This Will impress the trustees, no doubt, with what nice, happy coeds live in this nice, happy' prisoner, University. Now who decided this just the wardens, er, that's Administrators, we meant to say, in South Building? No. They had student help, in the form of the Women's Residence Council. "We thought asking the girls to come in early one night wouldn't be too much of an inconvenience, since we do want the women trustees to, see what some coeds are like and they're going to be making some important decisions about them in the next few mon ths." . That's a very nice sentiment. Now, if Miss Rose, the rest of the WRC and the Dean of Women's office would do just that ask the girt? to come in early, instead of commanding them to. . . And what's more, some girls are being made to come in an hour-and-a-half early without even hav ing the treat of getting to see a trustee or be seen by one. Those are the girls in the sorority houses and in Granville Towers, which no trustee is visiting that night. "We just felt that if we. were going to do it for some, we'd have to do it for all," Miss Rose ex plained. After all, that is how prisons work. Usually, anyway. Some prisoners are cool enough to riot every now and then. Questioning But, it's just as ture that if the press and broadcasting media rolls over and plays dead at the demand of the Johnson administration, they have betrayed our country. If the Johnson administration's policy in Vietnam is so weak that it cannot stand bitching on the part of news media, that policy doesn't deserve to be saved. Any national administration which insists that there be no criticism is a dictatorship, regardless or whether that ad ministration began as Democratic, or Republican, or Communist. Any administration which seeks to stifle and even muzzle legitimate country it governs a long step on criticism is seeking to takp thp the way toward a dictatorship Criticism in the news media of the Johnson policy in Vietnam ac tually has served America well. This criticism has helped build public awareness of the shortcom ings of that policy, as well as the good points of that policy. Legitimate criticism is needed to keep the administration on its toes, to help the administration watch its step so carefully that it can avoid some of the mistakes so easily made in such a situation. Events of the past few weeks in Vietnam surely make it plain that criticism of our Vietnam policy is much in order. Attempts i n Washington to stifle such criticism only emphasize the necessity for it.. Qmrbugermem New York City's garbage men are paid more than North Carolina pays its school teachers. A reoort in the Charlotte Observer ; Sunday pointed out this fact and others, all showing North Carolina to be fall ing farther and farther behind the rest of the nation in the amount it spends to educate its children. In the same paper was. another report showing how large companies are tak ing advantage of the Hurder Ah see where Letters To The Editor A Question To the Editor: There is a- disturbing policy in the Romance Languages Department upheld with various degrees of rigidity , by teachers of undergraduates; similar ad ministrative codes are applied in other departments. The question is forced attendances As. stated, the rule is as follows: ap pearance in class is compulsory. The stu dent is allowed by his professor a certain number of absences, usually three, which he may use, without question, as "insurance policies" (quoting two pro fessors) against emergencies. If a stu dent uses his three undiscussed cuts for purposes of his own choosing and then becomes ill, he may well be penalized for the over-cutting (or, under another pro fessor, he may not). The same policy holds for most conceivable emergencies of the length of three class periods or less. v Someone should remind the student who foresees a sudden family death, a transportation failure after vacation, or a sleep-in when he doesn't feel like walking through slush to the infirmary at 8 a.m., that cuts are precious. They are not free; they are to be hoarded against disaster. Family emergency or an infirmary ex cuse are the only reasons for cutting. Many students feel they should be ex cused for other reasons they consider legitimate. Like representing the University. Like going to a brother's wed ding. Like handling 24-hour flu, from ex perience, with cold pills, sleep and the familiar dormitory surroundings. With some language professors, these are legitimate reasons; with others not. Comparisons are"odious very. It is un just to a student who cares about his grade if under one teacher, he may have a grade docked, and under a less strict policy-holder he may be excused. But this explanation of policy just sets forth the interesting aspects of living within the rules. More basic issues are involved if one considers the policy from the outside. Having strictly required attendance, especially in language courses, sud- ZTZltLt classroom or laneuagp lah hv a nose-nng to allow exposure. The nose ring is fear of authority and gpadiMn sciousness . acquired in earlier schooling. This u an intriguing facet of the in loco parentis tradition. r Th!i Tar Heel is pub lished by the Universitv - Tf Sff Carolina sSS cations Board, daily exeent tL Graham Memorial Telephone numbers: editorial sports, news933-10nW advertisSfg uiepLdtofr1S p.ostaSe paid at NC f Ce 111 ChaPel Hill, Subscription rates year; $5 per semester. $9 per I- . i tax-free revenue bonds being offered them by North Carolina and other states in an effort to bring in industry, and supposedly, enrichen the state. Sunday pointed out this fact and others, all showing North Carolina to be falling farther and farther behind the rest of the nation in the amount it spends to educate its children. In the same paper was another report showing how large companies are taking advantage of the tax-free revenue bonds being offered them by North Carolina and other states in an effort to bring in in dustry, and supposedly, enrichen the state. . Under this device of tax-free revenue bonds, communities sell bonds to raise money so that a company may build a plant in that locale. they's gonna turn them commies loose on Chapel Hill agin. - Of Forced Required class-going accomplishes two things for the professor: it enables a ruler-subject relationship to go un challenged, and it protects him against obvious reactions to poor classroom technique, egocentricity, a n d in competence in his subject I submit that in paying a tuition fee, the student has to some extent bought a commodity. If he finds it valueless, it should be his right to remain absent from class. If he continues to be enrolled, of course, the professor always has the op ' 5 " By JAMES KAHAN Special to The Daily Tar Heel These days, ever time you flick on the tube, you get some government official being interviewed about the war. It doesn't matter if it's Johnson, Rusk, Humphrey, or even Bunker; it always seems to go the same way. Herewith is modestly presented a general impression of such interviews gleaned by yr. humble servant. - Q: . Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our show. Today's guest is the man who perhaps is closer to the - Viet Nam scene than any other man, the Honorable V.I.P Mr. P., things haven't been going so well these days, have they? The United States hockey team ever lost to the Russians, 10 to 2. A: I wouldn't really call that a loss, actually. After all, we controlled the ice 85 percent of the time, and three of their players were from Siberia, which, as you undoubtedly know, is territory really belonging to China. The important fact to remember about the game is that we on ly, lost two defensemen, while the other side lost their entire second line and a goalie. . Q: I'm afraid that I'm not up on the Siberian issue, so let's get on to the war. After all of the assurances-given us that the people were on our side, and that the cities were under our control, how do you explain that fact that some 500 Viet Cong were able to get into Saigon, and not one person informed the government? A: They were all wearing sunglasses. , Q: But surely, no matter how cleverly they disguised themselves, somebody would have noticed a couple of hundred new faces, and what about all of those guns? . , A' People come and go in Saigon all of '.hP time, and the Veet Cong look just ' i,vo inval citizens anyway. Besides, a -o with a eun miaht be secret policeman, and you wouldn't want to in sult him, would you? (note- U. S. Government officials always mispronounce "Vi-et" as "Veet." Always. Look it up in the dictionary.) q You ceretainly have a point there. Rut why has the United States bombed Lilians in Vietnamese cities because Viet Cong were suspected to be there. I'nt this the best sort of propaganda for the anti-Americans in Viet Nam? . A- Now just a minute! The United States has never bombed a city. It's the ARVNs that do that. Audi N At first, according to the Charlotte Obsrver report, the bonds were being us ed as they were intended to be used: small companies which might not have been able to expand without the bond issues w ere now able to. But there is now a dif ferent trend. Large firms, such as Litton Industries, Firestone Tire and Rubber, and Goodyear, are taking double ad vantage of the bonds. In some instances they are not only using the bonds to finance plant construction, but are also buying up the bonds themselves, making a profit off them. North Carolina began offering tax-free revenue bonds last year. We think they should not have. We think they should stop right now. North Carolina has a far greater need than just industrialization; she needs to provide a good education for Attendance tion of circumventing this by including material he considers worth learning, and by giving fair and comprehensive ex aminations. This acceptance of academic responsibility should be his only recourse.. Parental' hoverings are rapidly losing effectiveness in most areas of University concern. They should have been abolished in the classroom long ago. Laurie Williams 307 E. Franklin St. Ml Is 6 Face The Nation (note: U.S. Government officials always talk about the South Vietnamese government in initials. Always.) Q: Oh. But how about Hue? A: Well, that is another story. Sometimes you have to take extreme measures to rout out the enemy. I can assure you, though, from personal word from General I mean Vice-President Ky that all of these refugees are being taken care of in government camps where they can be concentrated for pro tection. . Q: What about the battle shaping up at Khe San? A: I can assure you that all of the generals say that Dien Bien Phu will not be another Khe San. . We will hold on to that encampment forever, no matter what the cost. The enemy must be shown The Virtuous By JAY FLEISHMAN Special to The Daily Tar Heel The professor walked into class 12 minutes late. He apologized by saying it was a long walk from Carrboro where he had to park his car. An exaggeration of course, but just another example of the acuteness of the campus parking problem.- The ad ministration has shown only sporadic in terest in the problem. Their inaction has accentuated it. The administration has toyed with the parking problem at various times, once at the price of $20,000, without taking ac tion. Oh, sure they've created their short run solution"' by refusing on-campus stickers to students living inside a designated so-many-mile radius. The long-run solution, however, has been. either overlooked or carefully avoided by South Building. The problem seems complicated. It is not so. The situation shows simply a lack of parking spaces and a lack of surface space to build additional parking spaces. The surface space problem can be handl ed by building up instead of out. A multi tiered parking lot is the answer. But where can we put it? There are only a few possible sites but just two such struc tures would seem necessary to solve the problem at least for the present campus x the next 35 years. There should be no rrn the people of the state. North Carolina has, for too lo- been mislead into valuing l dostrialization over education. Sovr she must realize that if she is to stop be? one cf the poorest states in the union she must upgrade her school system. North Carolina is already one of the most industrialized states in the country with over 45 per cent of her workers ial volved in industrial work. Yet she is u the bottom ten in the nation in the amount of industrial wage the workers get. The average North Carolina worker gets $1.S2 an hour, compared to about $2.70 nationally. The average wage paid by industries entering North Carolina in 1966 was LESS than the average for the previous year. Is that progress? In education North Carolina last year increased its per pupil expenditures $40 from $421 to $461 for this year. Sound like progress? It isn't. For the same itne period the national average expenditure per pupil went up $46 from $573 to $619. Contrast North Carolina's $461 with New York's $332 or Charlotte's $500 with Evanston, Illinois's $1,200. Consider that and it is easy to realize why North Carolina is one of the poorest of the states. It isn't because she lacks industry; its because she lacks an educated, trained labor force; the kind needed to draw in industry that pays well. North Carolina can continue to offer its tax-free revnue bonds and she will continue to get industries that pay $1.92 (if your lucky) to someone to watch the shuttles fly. We would suggest that the state take the money that she offers to industry and offer it to teachers. Then, and only then, will Jorth Carolinians stop seeing their state listed 44th, pr 40th or even 50th in all the statistics. And remember. New York City pays its garbage men a starting wage of $6,424. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools pay a beginning teacher $5,252. Gift Boycott To The Editor: I notice that we are all being blessed with a "Buyers' Guide" for which, we are told, our honor demands that we pay $1. 1 suppose that I should rejoice, as I am sav ing $1 o the $2 item, but somehow the . matter of definition disturbs me. Like, what is honor? It is honorable to coerce Students into the purchase of something for which they have little need? I suppose that bowling balls will be foisted on us next C.O.D., straight from the Voit fac tory. This is moral extortion of the worst kind. This is one kid that isn't buying. Paul Metz our resolve. Q: But some experts say that it's strategically worthless. A: Nevertheless, we must show our resolve. If we don't stop them at Khe San, the next thing you know, we'll have to stop them in Omaha. We must make the world safe for democracy. Q: But is the South Vietnamese government really democratic? A: Absolutely. Q: But why then are some of your speeches censored by their government? A: You'll have to take that up with the GVN officials. Q: I'm sorry, sir, but our time is up for now. Thank you for coming before our cameras to clear up the world. Now for a word from our sponsor, the Dow Chemical Corporation. tyscraper problem in the future extension of the -campus southward. The new parking lots could be built on any of the following sites. The area between the new Student Union and the Upper Quad, the present Bell Tower parking lot, the area between Carmichael and the Institute of Govern ment, or the present lot between Venable and Peabody and Phillips. Those who value the aesthetic, and the Carolina campus as her Utopia, will im mediately cry "no" to such a suggestion, claiming skyscraper parking lots are no more virtuous than smokestacks. But with the proper planning, a multi-tiered parking lot can be made just as at tractive as other buildings. Yes, to do such will require money. There should be little argument that those who want to park on campus should be made to pay for it. Not a minimal fee but whatever the costs involved in such construction and upkeep demand over a long period of time. - The fact is that action should be taken and now. And we can't wait for some im : provised solution to creep stealthily out of a bureaucratic cranny as has been so common in the past. If the administration doesn't take the initiative, it should.be pressured. The solution is not a perfect one. But it is a plausible one. . . a step the ad ministration hasn't taken. si