Wednesday, November 20, 1968
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THE DAiLY TAR HEEL
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76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurder, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
Campus Code Ridiculous,
Nicaraguan Violator Shows
How ridiculous is the campus
code?
Ask Rafael Perez, legislator from
the lower quad. He may have to
stand trial in student courts because
he violated the campus code last
Rafael Perez
Proves Solons
Still Exist
Student Legislature would
be a complete joke except for
the existence of a few people
good persons in the
body such as Rafael Perez,
representative from lower,
quad. ...
Perez takes his
responsibilities as the ;
representative of the students
in lower, quad very seriously"! ' :
Since the start of this year he
has' worked on about as many :
efforts to improve the -students
lot as has the rest of j
the legislature combined, A :
partial list of. his activities :
includes ' :
turning himself in for i
violation of campus code to
prove its absurdity;
trying to force the Book J
-Kx and Food Service to :
improve their sandwiches and
organizing a boycott to
accomplish that; :
-taking a survey of 150 ji
residents of lower quad to j:
ascertain their opinion on the :j
drug policy and then voting ")
the way they wanted him to; :
- investigating thoroughly
the inequities of the parking
situation in the lower quad j
and t ry ing. to get' the
Administration to change the :
situation;
repeatedly p utting
pressure on the Book Ex to
put milk machines in lower
quad.
: We wish that a few of the
: other legislators in SL would
: take a hint from Perez and
: start actively and energetically
: working for constituents also.
Who 9s The Enemy
In South Vietnam?
A Pertinent Question
M 4 ' ... ..... ..
vvno Americas enemy is in
Vietnam is becoming more and
more questionable every day as the
South Vietnamese continue to
refuse to negotiate, thereby
prolonging American involvement
in the war and diverting American
.resources away from domestic
needs.
For the third straight week the
United States has allowed itself to
submit to the vagaries of a bastard
regime ruled by the military that is
itself the son of another bastard
regime,, the Diem regime, that the
'United States forced on South
Vietnam in violation of 1954
Geneva Accords which called for
elections in South Vietnam in
:1956.
Those 1956 elections were never
held and the Diems stayed in power
; until the military decided o take
over in 1 965. in 1967, in a
ridiculous effort to fool the
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Dale Gibson, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, News Editor
Harvey Elliott, Features Editor
Owen Davis, Sports Editor
Scott Goodfellow, Associate Editor
Kermit Buckner, Jr., Advertising Manager
summer when he was arrested in
Managua, Nicaragua for public
drunkenness.
The campus code requires that a
student conduct himself like a
gentleman at all times, no matter
whether he is on or off campus, in
the Arboretum at UNC or the
jungles of Nicaragua.
Knowing that he had violated
the campus code-for what it is
worth Rafael Perez came up to
The Daily Tar Heel office Tuesday
and asked that someone turn him in
for his violation in order to show
how ridiculous it is to impose such
restrictions, whose nebulousness
makes them of questionable benefit
to the immediate geographic
.University community, much less
Justifying their application
wherever the student may be.
The Attorney General's office
may or may not prosecute Perez;
they are vacillating between
backing away from the issue on the
grounds that it would make them
look foolish or on the grounds that
there is insufficient evidence that
he committed the crime.
Whether they decide to
prosecute is irrelevant now; the
point is that Perez could be
prosecuted for his behavior several
thousand miles away from campus.
- The Attorney General's staff
really need not feel foolish in
prosecuting the case however; they
are merely doing the job that
students have entrusted them to do.
What is ridiculous is that they
would even have to prosecute
someone for such an offense.
Rather than they feeling foolish,
students and student legislature
should feel foolish for having let
such a matter exist for so long.
A Campus Code Committee is
; now considering several changes in
the code. We hope that they will
quickly come up with some
recommendations to legislature so
that legislature can hold a
referendum on the question before
Christmas holidays and give
students the opportunity to decide
for themselves whether they want
geographical limitations put on the
code, if they even want a code at
all.
American people into thinking they
were defending a democracy
Generals Ky and Thieu held an
election that featured, in its
aftermath, the imprisonment of
their main opposition.
Now, amazingly enough, the
United States is continuing to allow
these two-bit dictators to twist
money out of its nose and at the
same time do them the favor of
allowing them to negotiate in Paris
on an equal basis with the National
Liberation Front, that, most
observers admit, would have been
able to win the support of the
people in any free election that
might have been held since 1 954.
We hope that our outgoing
president and incoming one will not
continue to play games with the
Vietnamese generals while cities in
America deteriorate and American
youth are forced to fight and die in
an immoral war.
Scott Goodfellow
Off -Campus Code? No!
As a confirmed member of the
campuswide group who feels that most of
the deeds of Student Legislature are
about as helpful as more campus police, I
often have wondered why the Legislators
do not take the several very obvious steps
which would change the situation.
All of us owe a debt to this group for
spending so much time fussing over
money matters thorny problems which
most anyone would feel deserve a
Christmas' card in reward. But the real
possibilities go unheeded. This group
could serve as a spearhead for needed
changes by employing powerful leverages
it already has.
An Example
Take for example, the off-campus
Campus Code. This neat piece of
legislation allows for student courts to
prosecute an individual deemed guilty of
ungentlemanry conduct off the campus.
Theoretically and admittedly this is
rarely done you could have been
arrested in Chicago this summer for
sneering at a policeman as he maced you,
and after you'd been tried there, you
could return to face another trial by
"your peers" at UNC.
The fact that "your peers" includes
people who in the most recent election
(Remember it? It was last Tuesday) were
elected by 18 votes in a write-in
movement is basically irrelevant
Perhaps the Legislators have some
reason for not fighting this problem, one
behind which most of the campus would
unite in agreement. They could easily
cause major consternation with one
simple step: refuse to try students guilty
of such offenses in Student Courts.
Activism Necessary
Riotous student activism is rarely
desirable. Nevertheless the
Administration would be thrust into an
awkward situation by this move. They
could either drop the whole problem, or
they could try the students themselves, or
they could whip up- a game of
counter-pressures.
The first choice would be fine. The
second would confound the situation,
since the validity of a time-honored
system would be challenged if the
Administration asserted its right in just
one field to take it all over. The third
choice carries equally as many
imponderables.
. Some would look upon such a move
by Legislature as the first step toward
elimination of the Campus and Honoi
Codes. Such clamorings would be backed
by statements saying that police across'
the state aren't so harsh, knowing they're j
dealing with college students who willbei
Letters
To the Editor:
The Off-Campus Campus Code is a
ridiculous restriction on the students of j
UNC. Holding the student responsible to :
the campus code wherever he is the entire
time of his enrollment, this rule gives the
University the power to prosecute the
student for violations committed when he
does not directly represent UNC.
If a student violates the code while in
the vicinity of Chapel Hill or as a
spectator of a Carolina sports event, he
should be prosecuted because he is a
representative of the school. But a
violation committed at home during the
summer should not jeopardize the'
student's enrollment. The student will be
appropriately punished by civil
authorities, alleviating the need for
University action.
This unjust code should be abolished,
releasing the student from the
double-jeopardy it places on him.
Sincerely,
Richard K. Holzworth
217 Aycock
Rick Murray
se (JC life
Amid the travails of everyday life and
the depressing effects of bad grades, '
tremendous overloads of reading, and
weekends that fall through, it is
comforting for the college student to be
consoled and encouraged in his quest for
knowledge by the general public. Such
encouragement is typically meted out
through complimentary letters to the
editor in state newspapers.
For instance, let us examine a recent
letter from an Elizabeth- Shuler to the
Greensboro Daily News. Mrs. Shuler,
being a concerned mother, with all that
impliests indignant about Dean Cathey's
statement on marijuana laws. What could
this lead to? "Are our universities to be
turned into student-run institutions of
fun and games?" she asks.
Oh, no doubt, no doubt. College down
here at Carolina is just one big game.
Partying all the time, living it up the
whole bit. It's hard to decide what is the
most fun: sitting through tediously
boring lectures along with 79 other
hapless students, studying from 7 o'clock
until midnight every night in vain
attempts to catch up with your
assignments, or spending endless hours of
soporific research in the library.
Why, in .a few years, claims Mrs
punished at school upon their return.
This, however, is a somewhat idle
form of reasoning, since if you were in
such a position and handled by the civil
court problem, your desire to battle again
in student courts would be at low ebb.
Legislators already have a clear
mandate. A campaign slogan in countless
elections has been to toss off the bonds
of the off-campus Campus Code. Popular
reception of this suggestion has always
course
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(The following appeared in the Wall
Street Journal two days before the
election. Mr. Greene ultimately lost it by
a 7-1 margin. He refused to concede
early, however, saying, "I'm confident we
can widen the margin. "JK
SEATTLE Until recently, 30-year-old
Richard A.C. Greene was just one of the
guys. He was a teaching assistant and
summer graduate student here at the
University of Washington and manager of
the Jean Paul Sartre Memorial No Exit
Rooming House, which is owned by his
friend Lorenzo Milam.
But Mr. Greene was troubled.
"Richard was discouraged because he
didn't have a job in September," recalls
Mr. Milam. So his friends rallied 'round.
"We thought he should have a job where
he didn't have to work. Naturally, we
thought of politics," Mr. Milam says.
Studying 1964 voting records, Mr.
Milam decided that running for land
commissioner was the best bet. The
commissioner gets $20,000 a year, an
expense account and use of an airplane. It
sounded like just the job for Richard.
"Besides," says Mr. Milam, "Richard's
name is Greene."
He and the rest of Mr. Greene's "team
managers" an architect, a radio
commentator and a university
geneticist promptly got together with
Mr. Greene and did nothing, except pay
the $200 filing fee to enter their man in
the Republican primary. Then everybody
forgot about it. Mr. Greene got a job as
an instructor of classical languages at the
University of Hawaii and left for there on
Sept. 10, a week before the Republican
primary.
On Sept. 17, he won the four-man
primary.
Shuler, "the colleges will be nothing but
an expensive span of years when students
take a rest from learning before they are
forced (for lack of anything better) to
take on the responsibilities of marriage,
family, community and country." We
dare say it already is! -
We would even go so far as to say that
most students, after a tenure of three
years or so at this university, are
physically and psychologically worn out
from too much rest. After all, let's make
a comparison. The average white or blue
collar worker spends an eight-hour day on
the job and comes home to rest or relax
for only twelve hours or so. Meanwhile
the student (oh, lucky student) gets to go
to class and study for almost fourteen
hours out of every day. And we all know
studying is practically the same thing as
resting. Sure it is.
And what, if we may ask, do these
restful students do with all this spare time
they have on their hands? It is obvious.
Just ask Mrs. Shuler. "Recently, some of
the universities (oh, come now, Mrs.
Shuler, you needn't be afraid to mention
by name that other hotbed of liberalism
the University of North Carolina State at
Raleigh) have begun to allow women in
been high.
Leadership aimed at opposing such a
move would certainly be playing
harmonic second-fiddle with the
Administration, but it would also be
stagnating an important problem
Legislators, in battles such as last
Wednesday's drug disaster, have been
trying to "sit on the fence with both cars
to the ground."
l et's hop on over to one side, fellows.
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No one really knows how or why Mr.
Greene won. Montgomery (Gummie)
Johnson, the state GOP chairman, thinks
it might be because the other candidates
"iiad some kind of scars on them" and
because of Mr. Greene's name, which
voters apparently associated with land.
(The other candidates were Mr. Odman,
Mr. Satiacum and Mr. Gallup.)
Few people give Mr. Greene a chance
of unseating Democratic incumbent Bert
Cole on Tuesday but few people thought
Mr. Greene would win the primary. The
challenger himself isn't campaigning. "I'll
probably stay in Hawaii for the duration
of the campaign," he says. "It's- the best
way to keep from injecting personalities
into the race."
A Warren G. Harding Republican
Although Mr. Greene remains 2,409
miles away from the campaign "I've
been very successful in avoiding the
press," he says in a rare telephone
interview his managers are circulating a
17-point platform type-written on yellow
paper by his friend the geneticist.
The document has the candidate
describing himself as a Warren G. Harding
"temperate" Republican, it alleges he is
often misquoted as saying he is a
"temporary" Republican. On each page is
his promise: "If elected I shall be the sort
of land commissioner who will go out
fearlessly and commission the land."
The platform has some unusual planks.
For example, land use: "Land should be
used gently but firmly." State parks:
"For the citizens of King County
(Seattle), I envision a widerness area on
the site of the Boeing Co." Indian fishing
rights: "Individual catches will be limited
to four Indians (Indians under 5-foot-l
must be thrown back)."
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the bedrooms of the men's dorms. Oh sin,
sin!
Well, don't you worry about one
thing, Mrs. Shuler. Those sinful women
may get into the bedrooms in our dorms,
but you better believe we'll keep them
out of our living rooms and kitchens, not
to mention the dens and rumpus rooms
that come with every flat assigned to a
male student.
And alcohol consumption on campus!
Let there be no doubt in anyone's mind
that all college students are habitual
drunkards. WThat does Joe Carolina do
every morning when he gets up? Pop
open a beer. When he comes back to his
lush dorm flat after a morning class? Pop
open a beer. While wratching the late
movie at night? You guessed it pop open
a couple of beers.
What will they ask for next? Mrs.
Shuler gives us the terrifying answer.
"Freedom for the students!" Heaven
forbid. To think that for a minute we
would give those irresponsible students
control over their own lives!
We can only be thankful that there are
such fine people in this fine state of ours
to constantly remind us of what college is
really like. It just makes you want to rest
a little harder.
't -- tyy ''
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Mr. Greene even has a catchy motto:
"Lawn order."
The candidate has even , gotten in
touch with the national Republican
ticket, and he arranged to have his picture
taken with Spiro Agnew when the Vice
Presidential candidate visited Hawaii not
so long ago. Mr. Greene hasn't received
any financial backing from national or
state GOP organizations, though that
would be "molesting the pristine purity
of the campaign," says the state GOP
chairman and the lack of money1 is
hurting.
Conference at the Blue Moon
The backers have spent $500 for
one-minute radio ads, with ditties such as
"Keep Washington Greene" sung to the
accompaniment of the Great Excelsior
Jazz Band, which features cowbell,
whistle and kazoo. Another costly item
was the backers' only press conference,
held Oct. 16 at the Blue Moon Tavern, "a
hangout for dispossessed graduate
students." It cost $33, because Mr. Milam
bought drinks for the house.
The high point in the campaign comes
tomorrow, when Mr. Milam plans a giant
rally behind the Great Ape House at the
Woodland Park Zoo. The jazz band will
wail, and Mr. Greene's friends will
speechify for "6 to 13 hours" (the
circulars say) on such topics as "Can the
grass roots be greener?" and "Can the
. forests ever be truly virgin?"
The campaign has been a joke all
along, of course, but nobody here is
really sure how the joke will end. Mr.
Johnson, the state GOP chairman says,
"This one's too much. It's great. I know
where we stand on every race but this
one." Mr. Cole, the incumbent, says Mr.
Greene's candidacy has been funny and
perhaps has made the office a little better
known.
"It has made politics aware that
there's a humorous side. The voters will
take it that way," says Mr. Cole. "If they
don't," he says, his voice trailing away,
"well, there are other things more
profitable that I can do."
Mr. Greene says he would accept the
post if he is elected. The first thing he
would do, he says, is appoint Mr. Cole as
his assistant. Mr. Milam, the campaign
manager, says the first thing he would do
is ask for a ride in the department
airplane.
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