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Page THE DAILY TAR HEEL Thursdays October 24, il963 3 Saiig ar ?fm Lett To The Editor Let Everyone Tote Firearms rrn mo 76 Years of Editorial Freedom Wayne Hurder, Editor Bill Staton, Business Manager Date Gibson, Managing Editor Rebel Good, News Editor Joe Sanders, Features Editor Owen Davis, Sports Editor Scott Goodfeltow, Associate Editor Kermit Buckner, Jr, Advertising Manager Students Should March As Reminder To Committee The Southern Student Organizing Committee is considering holding a march to dramatize the extent and depth of student support for visitation agreements. A march, which is needed, would come at a crucial point, for now, after the petition in favor of visitation has been turned over to the Administration, a student-faculty administration committee is studying the proposal for visitation. As is the usual case with matters of crucual interest, the committee will be studying lots of things besides the students' desire to have the visitation. Such being the case, it would be good to give the members of the committee a reminder that students want the right to determine for themselves whether male students can have women in their dorm rooms. The members of the committee should not be allowed to forget that over 4,000 students signed the petition, and that about 80 per cent of the persons contacted about the petition signed it. What the committee will probably be concentrating on in its meetings is the repercussions that a visitation agreement might have on the parents or the citizens of the state. We consider it foolish of the dommittee -'it they really think' they shouldn't grant the students' what they deserve unless a majority of the parents or of the people in the state think the students should have the right to decide who comes in their rooms. Since when did the University have to consult the citizens and parents before it acted on some proposal? The administrators of the University have been given their in rAr-r to make such decisions as thev are now being destruction device, on the other Editor: . I offer the following solution to the gun-control problem which has plunged itself into so many American minds. The principle fear generating from the mass of the unarmed populace arises from their apprehension that the gun possessing minority has the power to do them in. Now, it is simply the case that this basic fear could be eliminated by arming the total populace with guns, thereby depriving the gun holding minority of their murderous advantage. With the gun problem removed, those with violent intentions could so pursue their designs by- resorting to either historically regressive .or progressive weaponery in the name of over-kill. Therefore, it is my suggestion that the guardians of public mortality should direct their concerns to statutes that would outlaw the thumb-screw or the rack, on the one hand, and a personal hhPinounuclear bomb or a laser called on to make; they were not put in that place in order to pass the buck on to persons who are totally unfamiliar with the University as it is now and with the problems of managing it. Did the University take a poll of the parents or citizens when it desegregated in the early .'5 0's? Of course not. It went ahead and desegregated because it knew desegregation was the right thing to do. Had it taken a poll of the citizens, alumni, or parents UNC would probably sfill be an all-white University. The same applies to the question of drinking in the dormitories, to the question of letting students demonstrate, or the question of letting students .run their own disciplinary system. The members of the committee should not obscure the issue of whether students should have the right to determine who will enter their rooms by demanding consideration of the parents and citizens. They should consider what the students feel about the matter, and whether they think students should have the right to run their . own lives, and then they should 7 make their recommendations to the administration. To encourage the members of the committee to consider the issues and not concentrate on irrelevancies students should march, a good way of dramatizing that the students want visitation, and not in some distant millenium. Sincerely Pere Ubu Doctor of Pataphysics Invective Penned For English Grads Editor: The following consideration: is invective for your A typical English grad am I, A typical English dud, My I. Q.'s thirty and plus one, But I can fake it, bud! I watch my words ascend to God, I watch my students wince; I talk to others like the calvier That Stevens dumped on Quince. I con, ikon to all my peers, I con them to my feet; If they ignore my bold finesse, I turn them into peat. They burn and shrivel like hot beers That've suddenly lost their head, And God I know my place in life Is to control with dread. Oh, a typical English grad am I, A typical English dud . . . ect. infinitum. ad Shetley Logic As Bad As His Sandwiches -Two students get sick after eating sandwiches made at the University Food Service; -Normally complacent students in lower quad get so aggravated by what they consider poor quality sandwiches that they picket the Circus Room; Students in lower quad circulate petitions protesting the poor labelling and poor quality of the sandwiches sold at Book Ex snack bars. Sound like there's something wrong with the sandwiches sold at the snack bars? No, not on your life-at least that what Tom Shetley of the Book Ex thinks. "Sales have not fallen off that much" says Shetley, drawing the' conclusion that therefore most students don't find fault with the sandwiches. His logic strikes as being as bad as his sandwiches. Of course sales haven't fallen off that much, Mr. Shetley. What do you expect when you have a monopoly on the sale of sandwiches on campus? If Shetley would agree to letting an outside sandwich company sell v its sandwiches alongside his own he would quickly find out what most students think of the sandwiches made at the University Food Service. But, of course, he wouldn't allow that, he said yesterday, because the Book Ex might start' losing money. With most of the students apparently not objecting to the sandwiches according to Shetley-where did all these protesters come from? Probably just a bunch of outside agitators; probably communists who don't think much of your capitalistic system, Mr. Shetley. Well, we wish those communistic outside agitators that picketed the Circus Room and who are boycotting you, the best of luck, because your ' strange brand of capitalism, with its monopoly that ignores the students, has got to go: v-' C "'. - ' ... . v .. . Sincerely .us , -, A -. , ; Richar d Williams P " Box 563 Chapel Hill Inventive Males Couldn't Do It Editor: Miss Huffman's letter of October 17 raised a few problems in logistics concerning male visitors in womens' dormitories. Miss Huffman lists four objections to establishing a program of dorm visitation which I shall try to summarize as follows: 1) One might meet guys on the hall in one's nightclothes; 2) some guys may become permanent residents of the dorm; 3) the issue of dorm visitation might become linked to a larger chain of events which could subvert the national security; 4) dorm visitation as an issue has become so enmeshed in a shallow form of avant-garde liberalism as to preclude rational analysis. These are problems of some magnitude, to be sure, but perhaps not insurmountable. First, it might be possible to designate certain dorms where males would not be allowed to visit, and those coeds who do not wish to have their privacy infringed upon could live in these. Actually, though, if Miss Huffman has spend some time in Europe, then she is no doubt a aware of the fact that most hotels do not have private bath facilities, yet guests have not found this to be a great inconvenience. Most simply slip on a bath robe (or more modest attire, if they wish). Second, even the most inventive males at U.N. C. wouldn't be able to pull this off. They just wouldn't Third, any reform issue may be attacked in a variety of ways. Up until now, everyone interested in pursuing the issue of dorm visitation at U.N.C. seems to have proceeded in a very rational manner. Even SSOC, which identifies this matter it deserves comment. Many who oppose the war, disgusted with Johnson and Humphrey, have deceived themselves into thinking that there is no basis for choosing between the Vice President and Mr. Nixon, especially on the issue of the war in Vietnam. Consequently this election is irrelevant to the future, and there now is a willingness on the part of many people wlio should know better to see Richard Nixon President. In the past four years the peace movement in this country has nudged the administration in the direction of two Letters To The Editor itself as being left of "liberal," has seen it to substitute the submission of a formal petition for a storming of the barricades. Fourth, people of both "conservative" and "liberal" persuasions might, without fear of falling prey to "fuzzy thinking," decide to support a policy ..of dorm visitation, since it would appear to be a basic right of individuals in a free society to entertain whomever they wish in what ever manner of abode they may have. I suspect that almost every female dorm resident on this campus enjoyed this cherished right before coming to U.N.C. Sincerely Rheaman P. Wood 14 Justice St. Falco Peregrinnus Not A Legal Bird Editor: I read with interest the lurid account by Don Causey on the bird being kept (illegally, Game Warden please take note!) by Jim Rossman. The following comments might be of interest: 1. There is no such bird as a prairie duck hawk or Falco peregrinnus (sic). 2. The bird in the picture is almost certainly a marsh hawk or harrier (Circus Cyaneus). 3. Harriers are completely useless in falconry. 4. The bird is full grown, and was full grown at an age of six weeks. It is now over one year old. ' ' 5. Over. $10 a week for steak comes to at least 6 pounds of steak a week even at Chapel Hill prices, or about a pound a day. I would be very surprised if the bird ate more than one-eighth of a pound a day. 6. Steak is an inadequate diet for the bird, as is fish. 7. If the bird is one-tenth as vicious as suggested in the article, it is being grossly mishandled. 8. Only in Chapel Hill would he be able to get $300 for the bird to a falconer she is not worth the price of jesses. 9. It is obvious that that help at Harry's is about as close to reality as most of the customers and about as adept at dealing with it. Sincerely, Fred von Hohenstaufen, Jr. Hubert Wrongly Maligned In DTH Editor: Because the snide rejection of Hubert Humphrey's candidacy in last Friday's Tar Heel editorial is typical of the thinking of many liberals and radicals on concessions. First, a final settlement of the war requires direct negotiations with the Vietnamese who do the fighting. Secondly, the war itself will not stop until the bombing of North Vietnam stops. Granted, both goals are only partially realized: our government will not negotiate with the NLF and the bombing of the North continues. That Humphrey addresses himself to the issue of the bombing of North Vietnam is no small victory and it has been won at no small cost. Mr. Nixon, on the other hand, claims he will end the war on an "honorable" basis. How? By diplomacy, he says. In the past he suggested he would negotiate with the Russians. But he continues to insist that he will maintain the territorial integrity of South Vietnam. If he is true to his word the war in Vietnam will not end and what small gains the peace movement has made may be lost By mere opposition to Humphrey those willing to see Nixon elected but at the same time want an end to the war in Vietnam are helping to open Pandora's box. One only hopes in January they are prepared for what comes out. Sincerely Bernard Gilman Soc. Grad Granville Path Badly Needs Walk Editor: thousand in . our There, . are about a underprivileged residents University community. They have to put up -with conditions as bad, as unsightly, and as unsanitary as one might find in a slum area. There was a time when neighbors tried to impress each other and outdo each other in keeping their yards neat, and in providing for the needs of their neighbors with sidewalks. This doesn't seem to apply to the fraternities adjacent to Granville HalL I am, of course, referring Co the residents of Granville who walk hear the fraternities going toward Cameron and Columbia Streets, crowding through their parked cars, stumbling over their beer cans and stepping on their trash. How many thousand people a day Lette rs The Daily Tar Heel accepts all letters for publication provided they are typed, double - spaced and signed. Letters should be no longer than 300 words in length. We reserve the right to edit for libelous statements. 10 r Vie L i c vc v -SM Economics I 4kose ou&.u s4-4ol- r f U. S. Not A fter Peace After about a week of constant news stories proclaiming that the U.S. and North Vietnamese were on the verge of agreement and that the bombing of the North would stop soon, U.S. officials are now saying there are slim prospects for a bombing halt. Many times before, during the course of the war, the U.S. has ignored peace feelers from the North. ! Now the U.S. has again ignored what might be a peace gesture from the North Vietnamese. For the most powerful nation in the world, one which can afford to take the first step towards peace, is this the type of action that characterizes a peace-lover? No, of course not. These actions only reaffirm our belief that the American establishment, the military, political, and industrial leaders in the U.S. don't want peace, that their lifeblood comes from the shedding of the blood of America's youth in war. scramble over the place where not even a step or a ramp is provided? Walk around that way and see it for yourselves. Sincerely, Catherine Johansson Eldridze Seen As Machiavellian Editor: Now that Eldridge Cleaver has to return to prison for rape, maybe we can have a few murderers from Central Prison in Raleigh come speak to us on contemporary moral values. And remember: Evil is born with the man, not bred by adversity. William Welch Pittsboro Rd. Chapel Hill Who's Spoofing Whose Spoof Noiv Editor: - I was delighted to read Mr. Schiller's spoof on the death of liberalism. Although his tone suggested tongue-in-cheek style (I may be mistaken), every word of the article was absolutely true. People are damned sick of liberalism and it's about time. America should realize that liberalism died some time ago and that political necrophiles such as Hubert Humphrey, who have been feeding on the bloody corpse of that very liberalism, are out. Anyone with a cursory knowledge of the tenents of conservatism can take heart that, once again, our country may be able to enjoy the beautiful logic of rational politics under a conservative government. Times will be hard for a while, however, until the new administration can ' completely de-infest the branches of government from the remains of absurdity, otherwise known as liberalism. It is fortunate that this country has realized the error of its ways in time to return to the bsuiness of sanity. Sincerely, Mark Keating 104 Grimes Grubby Weekend Seen Dirty Trick Editor: Has anyone else noticed the placards announcing "Polack Weekend" at one of the residential colleges on a recent weekend? There was a requirement for men participating in the weekend that they could not shave for the duration of the weekend. All were instructed to wear their oldest "grubbiest" clothes. There was even promised a contest for the "grubbiest" beard and for the women a contest called simply, "I crave your Bod." Even though the Republican Vice Presidential candidate uses such epithets as a matter of course, one would expect the carefully guarded liberal reputation of UNC to prevent the institution of, in 'Nigger Weekend." Sincerely, Diane Lauderman 2014 Englewood Ave. Durham Life is a big UNC sandwich, and every day is another bite. lily Neighbors 1 - I ' Li. I clat -Their hors ' . c , i a I r $cx vne amount oV coorfr io back "to ,oneVf . be dUt 3 you Cmv cdorfV ' 4'. me '' 'Maybe you should try 'Dial-A-Prayer " The Daily Tar Heel is published by the University of North Carolina Student Publication's Board, dairy except Monday, examination periods and vacations and during summer periods. Offices are on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone numbers: editorial,- sports, news-933-1011; business, circulation, advertisinr-933.1163. 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