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2. Thursday, March 14, 1963 THE DAILY TAR HEEL 1 - j. V t- te 1e far 76 Years of Editorial Freedom Bill Amlong,Editor Don Walton, Btwincss Manager ffew Hampshire Voters .Give Johnson Warning Every now and then something taroens to reaffirm vour faith in -electoral politics, the same J: governmental system that put Lyn ' v. tion Baines Johnson in office again inlG4. . ;. And that something for today is V'.thc showing made by Sen. Eugene "? IlcCarthy of Minnesota in the New VTIampshire presidential primary'. y;y Even while the counting of bat ytoU continues, McCarthy already has: lif. '. 42 PER CENT of the total Dem . ccratic vote, as compared to Presi- -. dnt Johnson's 49 per cent. Zfr OF 24 Democratic National Convention delegates, as compared fc President Johnson's four. THE POSSIBILITY of posting a higher total of votes than Preisdent Johnson as soon as the McCarthy write-ins in the Republican p residential primary estimated by McCarthy aides to be about 3,000-4,000 are counted. , - ' And at the same time ' McCarthy's New Hampshire cam paign was yeilding such en i'iCouraging results, the marverick )s Democrat was also rather handily " winning a landslide victory at Carolina in the YMCA-YWCA v Prtf erential Primary. The anti:Vietnam war candidate .Spoiled 1,106 of the 1,610 votes cast ;by. students, faculty members and tyniyersity" employees, giving him v a G8.7 per cent showing, as com pared to President Johnson's 18.1 .T per. - -cent (219 votes) and 'Massachusetts Senator Robert F. tenncdy's 12.6 per cent (203 THERE ARE A lot of people who will say that McCarthy's show -r:cf strength here was to be ex- ; pected, since his anti-Vietnam War stance is embraced by so many col V : lege students, a lot of whom are "i facing the draft in a few months. With this sort of reasoning, . ' political sophists could build a case against such a sample's showing '-results of any significance. Just "college kids a,t political play, they yTcculd argue. r : But, . . ; Hie voters who went to the polls in New Hampshire aren't just col- lege students. Further, most of .. them probably don't worry nights ; about whether they'll be drafted come June. In addition, New Hampshire has traditionally been thought of as 'being a real hawks' aviary, a bas 'l: tion of conservation political think- Carnage On From the Charlotte Observer How would North Carolinians react if a man-made disaster say, poisoned watersuddenly took the lives cf all 274 residents of the town cf Bostic, in Rutherford County? - There would be loud lamen tations, cries of outrage from the public, prompt governmental ac tion at all levels to guard against a recurrence, and swift retribution for the guilty. Yet the fact is that, as of the - close of business on the weekend of jtfareh 10, 275 persons had been killed since Jan. 1 on the highways . Generally, the carnage hasn't crused a perceptible murmur of '.concern except in the agencies ; most . intimately concerned with trying to reduce the grisly toll V . Now the State Highway Patrol ' nas announced plans to try the saturation technique in accident prone sections of North Carolina ? v.here drinking drivers and high Wavne Hurder, Managing Editor Rebel Good, Weiss Editor Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager . v ml . t,r-i& i jf ! . President Johnson . . . will he listen ? ing which would not only condone, but would even urge the United States onward in the kind of foreign policy of which Vietnam is only an example. BUT THE FACT is that even up in New Hampshire the people are getting very weary of this war the reasoning behind which has never been sufficiently explained. They are also growing .very weary of the effects itis having on the Johnson Administration's , domestic policy, a policy of omission that has brought this na tion to the point where its cities are threatening to become battlefields as fierce as tfte one at'Khe Sahn because of racism rooted in economics. The people in New Hampshire and at Carolina, and a lot of other places throughout the nation are very simply getting, tired of the Johnson Administration in general. And even if neither the New Hampshire race nor the Y poll are major enough political defeats to topple Johnson from office, they both are articulations of the people's weariness, and warnings that, if President Johnson wants to reamin in office, he is going to have to quickly heed this disen chantment with his Administration and take immediate steps to revitalize the United States' foreign and domestic policies, along with . his own political stature. If he doe sn't Tuesday's primary vote should have told him he could very well be com mitting political suicide. And the way things are eoine. the United States could die along the way, too. N. C, Roads way racers have been doing their worst. x : "Wolfpack patrols," consisting of five to 10 .troopers working within a single area, will be employed. Of necesstiy, this in volves leaving some sections of the state undermanned. But as 'patrol officers said, the element' of sur prise, will be on the side of law en forcement because no motorist will know whether he's inside or outside a saturation zone. There is no single, pat solution to the highway slaughter. Enforce ment can be rendered relatively in effective if juries and judges coddle the offenders. And an educated public, which insists upon cor rective action, is an indispensable ingredient of improved safety. How sad and strange and in comprehensible it is that otherwise compassionate citizens can be so callous to such an unnecessary, death-dealing epidemic. U)K 2L r .9f W.C. ue cxrs "Bur I 3 . ' y he 1, np be Letters To The Editorj WE f J5 C Rules Fight To The Editor: On the very same day (Friday, March 1) that the DTH informed us of Dean Cathey and Chancellor Sitterson's veto of the WRC's proposal for 'elf-limiting hours for senior coeds and those over 21," the DTH also pointed a statement issued by Sittersoaa in announcing the ap pointment of Dr. Harry E. Smith as the Chancellor's Special Assistant for Residence Colleges. Part of the state ment says, "As the University grows larger it becomes more and more im portant that means be developed to assure that the interests of the individual students are not lost." In "squelching" the WRC's proposal, ! believe the interests of many students, as expressed by the women's march in January on the WRC meeting and the WRC's many hours of research con cerning tins and related problems of women students, have been more than lost 4hey have been pushed aside and hidden by what the DTH has well termed as hypocrisy. If Chancellor Sitterson and Dean Cathey are so very concerned with the interests of the individ.ualr then why , don't?they do mprejvjhanake Reuses, about thei very important issues- oKmbit watchmen for the dorms and this lssueof no closing hours (as outlined by the WRC)? ' ' ( ' It seems obvious to us that a woman who cannot afford an apartment, but qualifies for one, deserves the same1' hours as the woman who can afford to live in an apartment. Why can't these trained and qualified men who make our decisions for (and against) us see this! simple fact? It also seems simple for us ito see a solution to the night watchmen problem some of the many . campus policemen could be put on a night shift and could serve as night watchmen. (I often thought the attitude which labels our campus policemen as "ticket-givers" . was a bit exaggerated until I recently watched one policemen give six con secutive tickets to six cars parked in front of our dorm. The drivers were pro bably picking up their dates clearly they were committing a terrible crime and deserved to be punished.) These night watchmen should then walk a beat, in . stead of riding, as is the usual practice. I have often wondered why I have never seen a campus policeman out walking a night beat. Could it be that they're as scared as we girls are? To use the DTH Editor's words, this has indeed been only the "first round" in the fight to get rid of closing hours. I believe we coeds will work even harder now for better rules. This stubborn op position which has recently been loudly expressed but unsubstantiated should unite the coeds and strengthen our move ment as we back the WRC in its efforts Ito change and improve our out-dated rules. . - . - . ;, r, ' Earlene Gentry ; .; . 417 Winston Why Protest? ToTheEditor: 1 The United States is said to be the I greatest democracy in the world today. Why is it then that so many people must protest against the government and the j use the government makes " o f democracy? One reason is that govern-! ment officers are fallible and therefore I make mistakes. A second reason is that a democracy needs diverse opinions and therefore some people will not be happy with governments policies. A third reason ; is that people do not make full use of their power as citizens ; of the United States. , Our democracy allows citizens to elect" their own representatives to Congress These- representatives theoretically should speak out for their constituents if they do not and if the voters are in terested enough to study their represen tative's record, he should not be re elected. Most representatives realize this and therefore, when they are aware of their constituents wishes, act ac-; cordingly. it is therefore the duty 0f every citizen to write to his represen tative and tell him exactly how he or she feels on important issues. Two issues which involve each reader of this letter is the war in Viet Nam and the recent changes in draft status of seniors and first-year graduate students. I urge each . of you to write to your Congressman and state your opinion on these and other vital issues, investigate his record of voting on these issues, and place your vote accordingly when this person is at tempting to be re-elected. Martin L. Krovetz r- , , Graduate Student Social Psychology 'Greek' A Waste To The Editor: It was with pleasure that I read of the resumption of the publication of the Carolina Greek. I was informed that its . earlier bumblings have been corrected and that now my money can be wasted with even greater efficiency and im The Daily Tar :Heel is pub- lished by the University of North Carolina Student Publi cations Board, daily except Mondays, examinations period? and vacations. Offices are on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone numbers: editorial, sports, news 933-1011; bus iness, circulation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C, 27514. Second class postage paid at UJS. Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C. . - Subscription rates: $9 year; $5 per semester. per What The Heck AMi-Amti By LOU HECKLER SILLY MILIMETER DEPART There's been a lot of talk around here . : lately belated and otherwise -about the Post Office Department's decision to put anti-smoking signs on the sides of their ) trucks. The signs are on now, but they'll ; never discourage "Granny" Wilcox of Grapevine, Texas. She took up the habit ' at 100. She's a silly five years older now ulat 105, and smokes two packs a day, as C weill as an occasional cigar. She used to : ' smoke a corncob pipe, a habit she picked up when she was 10. Caution: the Post Office Department may be hazardous to her health. , DEPARTMENT This warm spring s weather brings out more than daffodils, flower children and other blooming idiots. This is also the- season for the return of the mini-skirt, or is it micro-skirt this season? It makes the Carolina gentlemen quite happy, but some of the firls must get mighty chilly. Even worse, they might be suffering from clothestrophobia. . - GIVE EM THE BUSINESS DEPARTMENT A friend in the B.A. school complained to me the other day that some of the accounting problems he has had to deal with in class have been especially difficult. I reminded him not to get discouraged, since men in his line are fairly well paid once they take the C.P.A. test and pass it. He said he'd rather die first. I doubt he wilL Old accountants never die, they just lose their balance. OH YOU KID DEPARTMENT As the parking problem' increases with each passing day here on campus, the status of Victory Village remains at best un certain. More of the lean-to's in that sec tion of campus 'are about to bite the dust to make way for an asphault jungle, of J 1 R Backed agination. How difficult it is to express the relief which these assurances brought! What visions (of which I shall recount a few) these $.98 frenzies of power engendered! BUBBLE GUM cards featuring student leaders. A THREE-WEEK Sensitivity Training Program and Survival Test to be held in Watts. A POLYETHYLENE Tower of Babel to be erected on the site now occupied by South Building. A RE-ENACTMENT of Palm Sunday with members of the Student Legislature carrying a bust of Fearless Fly through the streets of Chapel Hill. A PERPETUAL-MOTION machine top ped by a neon sign reading, "Are you running with me, Jesus?", to replace Silent Sam. SEVERAL THOUSAND stomach pumps. Mike Byrd 106 Carr Dorm 4 I Bring pThe Races :gethei? By OTELIA CONNOR I listened to Charles Evers in a cam paign "speech in Mississippi telling a white audience 'For hundreds of years we, the black people, have taken care of you, nursed your children, cooked your meals, cleaned your homes, baby-sat when your parents went out at night, now it is up to you white people to take care of us, by voting for me and enabling me to help our people to help ourselves. How true he was. When I grew up we were always devoted to our colored servants. And if I had not had excellent help when my children came along I would have gone to bed and stayed. Charles Evers gives the voters of Smoking -Argument- parking lots. Any more it seems that a married couple's stay in the Village will last only from here to maternity.. BRING BACK MADRAS ; DEPARTMENT Any bets as to what the spring fad on campus will be?' Will madras come back? How about bottle green blazers? Or wing-tip tassel tennis shoes? It's funny how a fad will sweep over. an entire campus, with each group trying to out-point the other. You make the choice for this year's fad, and it will end up like all others: in one era, and out the other. REFLECTIONS ON A GOLDEN TOURNAMENT DEPARTMENT I for one was not surprised by N.C. State's slow-down tactics against Duke last weekend in the ACQ tournament. Think about it for a moment. Those boys at Cow College are bound to know all there is to know about stalls. SNUFF SAID DEPARTMENT An x advertising prof was talking the other day about the advertisability of certain products. He pointed out that the manufacturers of snuff never mount a large national campaign, because they know they're dealing with a limited au dience. So, the many advantages of using that snuff stuff are neve told. Just goes to show you that nobody likes a guy who goes around putting his business in other .people's noses. . GET THE LEAD OUT DEPARTMENT Anyone who has ever' tried to buck the administration knows he has a better chance of trying to score with Larry Miller guarding him. The powers-that-be in South Building seem to insist in keeping this a conservative, traditional school. It makes University policy somewhat like my pocket: there's Coed Closing Irregularities To the Editor: As three U.N.C.-G. students who recently visited the Chapel Hill campus, we feel as though it would be helpful to offer a few suggestions concerning the women's residence halls closing pro cedure. Due to the confusion and inefficiency which we felt were present at closing time on Saturday night, March 9, we caused our hostess to receive 12 late minutes (constituting a Saturday cam pus). To cite examples of this confusion, the University Bell Tower was tolling ten minutes until one as two of us received four late minutes. Another girl received eight late minutes partially due to the lack of any sign that the dorm was closed to freshmen. We accept these late, minutes as we were tardy according to the dorm dock, but we feel as though our suggestions could help to prevent future confusion at closing time for U.N.C. coeds as well as their guests. INSURE INCREASED efficiency of the hostesses on duty at the closing hour. For example, the girl in charge of unlocking the doors for late comers should have immediate reference to the correct time. The procedure the night of our visit was for the hostess to shout "Time?" and wait for a reply , from the main desk. While this may seem trivial, we feel that the delay in waiting for a reply resulted in our ac cumulation of more than . two extra late minutes. DISPLAY SOME sort of visible sign that the dorm has been closed to freshmen. (Le. a sign on the front door, the turn ing off of a certain light). . f BE CERTAIN THAT each guest has a I full understanding of closing pro- j cedures, including any discrepancies ? in clock time. How about sticking to the correct Eastern Standard Time Since when does Chapel Hill rate as a new Greenwich? Sue Adams Janet Hunnemann Dale Johnson Gotten Hall UNC-G t Mississippi a choice, that they have never had before, to pay back part of their dell to the black people. I am not for electing people to office because of the color of their skin, but I think if I was in Mississippi I would cast my vote for Charles Evers. His purpose in running for office is a worthwhile one to bring the races together, and not widen the existing gap. Whether he wins or not, he is moving in the right direc tion. Charles Evers is a refreshing contrast between the Black Power and the White Power advocates. Good luck to him. May there be more like him on both sides of the fence. J v. I v v never any change in it. . THE KIN YOU LOVE TO TOUCH DEPARTMENT The search goes on. At one point in every college student's life, if not more, he looks for that easy course which will do wonders for the QP's. The search is often futile. So, while pappy shells out the coins, junior cares little about learning and more about taking it easy. That makes it seem like college bread is a four-year loaf made out of the old man's dough: BREAK OUT THE COPPERTONE DEPARTMENT Last Saturday made one thing apparent: it's arb time again. And, since the trees are not in full bloom, passers by get their yucks watching com ely coeds and grungy gentlemen getting their fry in the ointment. I'm waiting for the day when sunbathing gets more dar ing. Remember, for that all-over tan and look of sensational virility, you must leave no stern untoned. SORRY, DANIEL DEPARTMENT You won't find any of these in Webster, but fay them on a friend the next time you're searching for defmition, in your life: A college boy one who ends every sentence with a proposition; A coed: a moron with less on; A college prof a man who talks in everybody else's sleep. HEAD FOR THE PADDIES DEPA RTMENT Rather than revealing to you my feelings on the Vietnam con flict, here's what I feel the ad ministration must think. The words are actually those of Oscar Wilde: "As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its facination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." So, what the heck?
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