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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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76 Years 0 Editorial Freedom
Bill Amlong, Editor
Don Walton, Business Manager
L And University Bea
To What Students
j - ; The modern university is too
. much of a busy-body.
That, in essence, is what former
- Student Body President Bob Pwell
was saying Thursday when he told
a regional NSA conference that the
rnain thing wrong with universities
is "an overextension of the authori
ty of the university into student
:viife."
'!.:"' And how well Powell is qualified
'.to speak, after spending four years
here at a University whose
overextension of authority has
become a cornerstone of, its
4 ' philosophy of higher education.
That is what South Building is
- talking about when it says that the
University has a responsibility not
only to teach its students, but also
, to shape them up into good, solid
citizens.
VI The main hang-up with this is
;that the denizens of South Building
normally possess rather archaic
conceptions of what good, solid
citizenry is all about. It seems
often that they have derived their
'"''"concept of it from a careful reading 1
of Sinclair Lewis' Babbit. '
For example, It wasn't all that
long ago that a male graduate stu
dent was found to be living with a
female graduate student, to whom
he was not properly wed.
- 0 . 'Lord,'! ..one . of t h e ad-r
?'5vministrators-!6xclaimed, "what are
' . 1. . , . i. i..ij V- A i.L
we ever gumg 10 uu uuuui uiese
bohemians!"
Now, there are quite a few peo
ple around who wuld suggest to the
dan that he simply bug off, and
permit young love and - or lust
to run its normal course.
Would all these persons be
libertines, craven lechers and the ,
like?
Probably not.
. Then how, why, could anybody
of relatively sound mmd and
morals make such a suggestion
that the good, gray deans of the in
stitution not swoop down on every
instance of student misconduct,
and then publicly crucify the of-
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Progressive
The NSA Conference in Atlanta,
Ga. is proving to be a sounding
ground this year for theories in
university residence as well as
educational reform. '
St. Andrews College in Laurin
.burg has taken a dominating role
in ihe discussions of residence
renovations because they have
already tried experiment al
residence set-ups and can quote
results.
Coed dormitories, which have
bean in existance at St. Andrews
for 4 years, were heralded by one
of their delegates as providing a
.much better atmosphere for liv
ing. Carolina is making progressive
baby steps in this direction with the
conversion of Parker Residence
Hall in Scctt Residence College to a
women's dorm. Parker will,
therefore, be in the same residence
system next year with the'all male
Avery and Teague dormitories.
Coed residence colleges are at
least a stari in the direction of
more Feral and workable units.
The joint mass dormitory has
succeeded in the instance of Gran
ville Towers and has appeared to
provide a cohesive unit
The struggl ng residence college
system will have to integrate the
sexes before the concept, which in
actuality is all it is now, becomes
reality.
f'.n
Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor
Wayne Hurder, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, News Editor
Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager
Want
fenders as an example of what hap
pens when somebody's naughty?
It's very simple, really: a lot of
people just think that other people
should mind their own business
when what's happening is a very
private thing that is going to
neither harm nor help the rest of
the community.
Further, these same people
define the University's business as
that of being an academic in
stitution, not a police system.
And students are more and
more asking that the University
cease acting like it was a police
force. . :' . .:. '
Of the 2,000 persons voting in
the attitudinal survey on the honor
system, an overwhelming majority
voted for limiting this sphere to
at most the Chapel Hill com
munity and other places where a
student might be o f f i c i a 1 1 y .
representing the University.
The tally went like this: .
1,109 for limiting the code as
was just mentioned
668 for limiting it to lust the
campus. !"'-: '
162 from limiting 'it to: "the
Chapel Hill community. " '
Clearly, the results should tell
both the Administration and Stu
dent Government that the student
body here is unhapp with trie way
things are being ruin nowl ' i
Further, it should tell them to
change it.
But, after watching the Student
Legislature pull such a stunt as ap
proving the Administration's drug
proposal which insures further
intrusion into "students' " private
lives, only now . with Student
Government sanction - we wonder
just what the survey or anything
else can tell them. : - v
For it seems that both are
rather deaf to what the students
want. " , .
; Perhaps, however, the black-and-white
results of the poll will act as
a hearing aid for them:
Baby Steps
' :
It is fine for Carolina to boast of
residence colleges, but until the"
students . feel a part of an in
tegrated residence college, the pro
gram has failed.
At the present time men's and
women's residence colleges at
tempt to interact in such areas as
social functions, but many of the
attempts have proven to be dismal
failures.
The members of the separate
colleges don't know each other arirt
can't be
expected to when their
are some distance
-
locations
apart.
So any kind of
two colleges undertake fizzles with
a h ant chool- nf ..: ,
a blank sheet of paper where girls
are to sigh pu for a date whom they
have never heard of.
One of .the proposed purposes of
the residence college is to dwindle
a massive campus into
numerous
operable nuclei. But as long as the
colleges are segregated according
to sex, the unit is not realistic.
A small Presbyterian college
has defied the conentional by-lines
for college residences and in so
doing has come up with a suc
cessful alternate system.
Carolina can relate with pride
the success of its experimental col
lege at the NSA convention, but it
must take a seat in the audience
when residence reform takes over
on the agenda.
TTl Ti rt 0
itLiiecit
The spring elections are rapidly ap
proaching, and the campus politicos know
that the time to win is now or never.
If you don't believe there's a lot of
wheeling and dealing going on, just take
a look at Jed Deitz or George Krichbaum.
You can see the strain of the late night
early morning confabs in their bloodshot
eyes. - - v
' Dietz and Krichbaum are seeking the
Student Party nomination for student
body president. Each is saying publicly
that he has the votes to win, but privately
they both know that the race is extremely
close.
Indeed, this year's race for top spot on
the SP ticket promises to be every bit the
thriller that last year race for the VP
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Letters To The Editor
To The Editor:
Blackwell Brogden's absurd review of
"The Graduate" (DTH, February 21,
.1968) begins by telling us that "the ques
tion" concerning the film "is how to
classify it." You know, is it funny or sad?
It has apparently never occurred to him,
that a movie could be both "good for a
laugh" and serious.
' Brogden's clumsy plot summary spins
its wheels noisily but never gets out of
the mud. What really happens in the
movie is that the graduate, played by
, Dustin Hoffman, conies home from col
lege behaving like every middle-class
parent's ideal son. He says "sir" or
"ma'am" to his elders, worries about his
future,' and responds to an attempt to
seduce him by asking the woman what
her husband would think. v
Anne Brancroft plays the woman, a
friend " of the graduate's parents, who
- tries to seduce him. She brings into his
life the dark side of middle-class morali-
ty. Previously he has known how his
elders have told him to behave; now he
knows how they behave. When he is en
ding his affair with her he is quite
thoroughly turning his back on that
morality, and turning to a young girl
his own age.
Brogden complains that the graduate's
innocence is "totally unrealistic" because
he measures it like some moralistic
sjucuuiugisi. ne can t understand how
this young man can set throng iiQrTo
With a7 dazzling remrrl "qc 4.uii..-
!Ltar' student government politico, a Phi
?T.Lappa" and stiU b "a bashful
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It is inconsistent of Brogden to com
mixer which Plam the graduate is unrealistic and
"Ju, . rescue at e. church as
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LiiKe the eradnnto'Q
innocence, it is highly stylized, but it
makes an important moral point The
graduate rescues the girl only after the
ceremony is over; as he and someone
elses new bride escape, they don't look
. cuwi omer or embrace. Their eoal
moral, not sevnai r u. - ..
They are not married, but th?y have
agreed to droP out togethr. '
.
The movie is quite serious, although it
aautf m0rtal
a laugh. Its message is drop out.
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mid Blood-
spot was. In that race, Dietz defeated
Krichbaum by the paltry margin of seven
votes. .
It would appear that Dietz would have
an edge this year because of what he has
done. He has been a strong supporter of
the popular Experimental College and of
the Residence College program. As Vice
president of Student Government, he is
probably better known than
Krichbaum.
But in party convention politics, this is
not necessarily an advantage. The
decisive factor is not what is better
known or who holds what position. It is
who has the votes.
And for a long while, it looked as if
Krichbaum, SP Legislative Floor Leader,
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fo everu I XV ..'..-Krvt- Jo'eWV -Wlr;' 7 : ::
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eview G Absurd
There is no apocalytpic garble about
turning in and turning on, no conversion
to Leary or Baba, no platform of govern
ment or by, and for aging adolescents. It
simply shows a highly moral young man
consider and then reject an inherited
system of morality and then leave it
behind to find his own.
The movie says American middle
class morality is corrupt and stinks.
Rather than accept it, the graduate drops
out, morally and economically by the
end of the movie it's at least four months
after graduation and he hasn't done a day
of work. That's serious stuff. That the
movie is also good for a laugh is its great
strength. The graduate's rejection is not
vitriolic, just tota. Its other characters
are human, not cardboard caricatures of
the middle-class so perposterous we don't
recognize ourselvs in them. There is no
swooning daydream of total escape;
. there is no talk of reforming the system
or erecting another in its place. One
simply leaves it.
One way to avoid facing these issues
is to worry about "how to classify" the
film. The next step is to say it fails as a
serious movie and laugh at it con
descendingly. Brogden's review aptly
employs these evasive tactics. I wish him
a lifetime of movies in which the chastity
of Doris Day and her avatars is endlessly
contested. Escapist reviews deserve
escapist films. For those who don't leave
their lives at home when they go to the
movies, "The Graduate" is highly recom
mended. -
William Matthews
Complaint For GM
To The Editor:
The purpose of this letter is to call at
tention to the utter lack of courtesy on
the part of the staff of the information
desk in Graham Memorial. The incident
which prompted this writing occured
vesterday when I attempted to purchase
two tickets to the Gentry-Campbell
Show I was informed that there were
none available yet. I next asked the logi
cal question of when they would be avail
able As a relatively civilized individual
I expected to be told a tentative date, in
formed of a cancellation, or at least
given an explanation some unforseeable
Feason for an indefinite postponement.
From such information, I could have
altered my plans accoruu,.
For an answer, however,
, i the tickets
I was
would
m
be avaUable when they were available. Had
t wanted to hear this tautological redun
dancy I would have asked a parrot
uVvPver I was forced to satisfy myself
S tiS'answer being informed that the
formation staff had been cruelly sub
jected to answering this question
day.
all
had the votes. Backed by Student Body
President Bob Travis and a host of the
political pros, Krichbaum seemed to be
the favorite of the party regulars. He also
had control cf the important convention
credentials committee which settles
disputes over who vote at the con
vention. Things looked bad for Dietz, and there
was talk of his running an independent
candidacy.
But last Sunday night's SP meeting in
Gerrard Hall may have changed that pic
ture. Under SP rules, any student may vote
at the party's nominating convention if he
has paid his dollar dues and has attended
two regular party meetings.
LA
Granted, it may have been a trying
day; but it has always been my un
derstanding that information desks were
places to seek information not wise com
ments. If this job is too odious and
distasteful to these individuals, I would
recommend that they be relieved of their
burdens as soon as possible. I hate to see
the overt cruelty of forcing them to con
tinue in their trying positions.
Richard H. Fabacher
604 Craige
Thank Heaven
To the Editor:
I was just about to fold the February
22 edition of the Daily Tar Heel into an
experimental paper plane, perhaps its on
ly useful function, when I noticed Otelia
Connor's "article on "Gentleman-Like
Conduct."
To publish, for all eyes to see, such a
literary abortion, such a blantatly
mawkish display of stupidity so
characteristic of that sex, took true,
editorial courage.
Everytime I open the Daily Tar Heel,
I rush to the Episcopal Church on
Franklin Street, throw open the doors,
drop blindly, breathlessly, reverently to
my knees, and thank the Lord that the
paper has such a small circulation,
Stuart S. Richardson
237 Ehringhaus
The Pedestrian
By DAN GIBSON
Special to the DTH
To those of us who live on "the other
side" of Columbia Street, walking to and
from class can be a hazardous, but ex
citing experience needlessly so.
Three times a day, 8 a.m., noon, and 5
p.m., Columbia street between Cameron
Avenue and Franklin Street turns into a
four-lane drag strip. Rush-hour racers
compete for pedestrian-scaring honors
between the go-lights at either end of the
street. Meanwhile, the
pedestrians mostly steel-nerved Gran
ville Towers and fraternity house
residents do their best to cross the
street'
"Doing their best" . usually means
waiting, patiently, while tons of foreign
and domestic metal thunder past driven
by sadists.
Suddenly, a hole will appear in the
stream, and one brave soul carrying a
load of books will do the Gayle Bomar bit
and swivel-hip his way across two lanes
of traffic only to be stopped cold athe
center stripe. (And you should see what
goes on outside the painted cross-walk.)
At that point, he is sandwiched between
SkQt Eye
Operating with this in n- t.
Dietzites launched an extensive driv
get people out to the meeting t0 S- J 10
for membership.
It looks like they were successful
Seven hundred students joi-ed v
party Sunday night, many of who
from South Campus, where Deitz iTU
stronger candidate. If these people co
to their second meeting this Sia&
night, Tuesday's SP convention will be I
wide-open affair.
But still the behind-the-scenes
proach of the political wheeler-dealers h
not to be minimized; it is a definite b.
fluence in who will get the nomination.
. The way this type of thing works is
best understood through the hypothetical
example of an organization" on 'cam
pussay a club. Imagine that the club
has 20 or 30 members and that it is
dependent upon appropriations from Stu
dent Government for a large portion of
its budget.
The members of such a
be especially interested
club may not
in cam
politics, but they are concerned about the
appropriation for their club.
Thus, they
have become
have joined a party and
eligible to vote at the
party's convention. They are prepared to
vote for the candidate who will guarantee
the most support for their club.
It is easy to see that if either Deitz or
Krichbaum can get the support of two or
three blocks of 20 or 30 votes, his position
would be significantly improved.
That's why they've been running
around way past midnight, and that's
why they've got bloodshot eyes.
Democracy
And Senate
To The Editor:
Mr. Moore has said that the senate
system and individual initiative "do coex
ist and, in fact, complement the existence
o each other." This has been my belief
all along.
I think Mr. Moore, Mr. Darrah, and
Mr. Levy will affirm my conviction ex
pressed in my Saturday letter to the
-editor. I feel that any democratic govern
ment can only be a function of the people,
and therefore it is mandatory that the
people be the initiators. James and King
have no significant institutional dif
ferences. Both depend on and exist within
the realm of individual initiative.
No, Mr. Moore, I do not view the
removal of individual initiative as unim
portant. There would be no democracy if
there were no individual or collective in
itiative. Once again I reiterate the James ex
periment as excellent for the individual's
interests, but I am also pleased to see
that Speaker Moore realizes the im
portance of a senate in a democracy.
In closing I would like to paraphrase a
confrontation of G.E. Moore and
Bertrand Russell as synthesized in
"Beyond the Fringe."
Moore, asked Russelldoyou-feaYe some
apples in that basket. No, Moore
replied, Moore, asked Russell, do you
then have any apples in that basket
No he replied smiling seraphically as
Was his wont and leaving Russell
with a logical cleft stick to which e
' had but one way out. Moore, asked
Russell, do you have apples in that
basket. Yes, Moore replied, and be
and Russell became close friends
from that point on.
A. Leonard Tubbs
Governor, King
raffle
lanes, and is getting dusted off, front and
rear, by the traffic. After he is thorough
ly dusted, his patience will end and be
will dash across the next two lanes
straight-arming Volkswagens and kicking
Sprites in the teeth.
This is exciting sport, but no fun for
the poor pedestrian. What's worse no
one in this part of Heaven seems to care
about the situation.
The drivers certainly don't care, or
else they'd stop and give the guy on foot
a chance to get across. The Chapel Hill
Police Department doesn't seem to care,
or they would at least enforce the speed
limit The City of Chapel Hill doesn't care
or it would put up "yield to pedestrians"
signs at the cross walk like the ones cars
are always hitting on Franklin Street
(The signs would at least furnish the
pedestrian with something to hide behind
when he makes it to the middle of the
road.) It would also help to lower the
speed limit from 35 miles to 20 miies an
hour on that stretch of Columbia
Street
The situation needs to be reminded.
Seme one is bound to get hurt if it isn't