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Sunday, December 15, 1D68
Joe Sanders
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
What We Have Mere Is A Lack
76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurdcr, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
ismissal Of
A Blow To
The story behind the dismissal
of the two UNC Episcopal
chaplains, Bill Coates, and Herbert
Tucker, is beginning to sound even
more disillusioning.
Episcopal Bishop Thomas
Frasier said Saturday that the two
will have to leave the chaplaincy
here June 1 because a committee
had recommended re-organization
of the chaplaincy.
So apparently, when you get
down to the meat of the"
controversy, it seems the two are
being dismissed because they made
too much of an effort to get along
well with everyone, to make the
church more relevant to life, to try
to do their propogating among all
people, not just among those
people who came to the Episcopal
Church every Sunday morning.
Their work here was, as the petition
in support of them said, "a fresh,
innovative style of campus
ministry."
These two have "witnessed to
the vital meaning of the Christian
message for our day, they have
faced the hard questions with
courage and integrity, and they
have helped many to gain a fresh
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going to physically?
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or stay the Southern Part of
ijij Heaven? When you stop to
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campus and then begin to
;i;': consider the five story, the
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building that are scheduled to
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i next decade you begin to
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jij: Heaven isn't going to hell,
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iij; Currently decisions on
jij: what kind of building the
jij: University is going to get for
iij: its money are made within the
jjj: Administration. Students and
:j;j faculty usually don't find out
jij: what their new buildings are
jjj: going to look like until a
ijij contract is let. By then it's too
jjij late to stop "progress" on the
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jiji campus needs, if it is to stay
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that is now is, is open
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Dale Gibson, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, News Editor
Harvey Elliott, Features Editor
Owen Davis, Sports Editor
cott Goodfellow, Associate Editor
Kermit Buckner, Jr., Advertising Manager
Chaplains
Christianity
respect for the Christian faith," the
petition explains.
And now, unfortunately, these
two will no longer be with the
chaplaincy, effective June 1, unless
the Episcopal Bishop realizes their
immense value to the community
and the Church (not just the
Episcopal Church, but the Christian
Church.)
It is precisely that which is
happening here-two persons who
have been recognized by the
community as close followers of
the Christian idelas, two persons
who kept many from becoming
alienated from the Church, are
being dismissed.
This is extremely unfortunate
and foolish. A meeting will be held
today at 4 p.m. in Gerrard Hall to
consider what can be done to keep
these two chaplains in their
position. We hope that all persons
in the community who - are
distressed by the dismissal of
Coates and Tucker will attend. We
also hope that the officials of the
Episcopal Diocese will realize the
grave error they have made and will
keep these two on as campus
chaplains.
Of UNC's Massive Building Project
construction of buildings.
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administrators deciding how ijij
to get the most for there
money physically, other jiji
members of the University
community need to be $
brought in to advise on not
just how to get the most i
square feet of space for the jjj
dollar, but also how to get the j
most sensually appealing, most j
socially positive building. Lots
of classroom and laboratory i
space help to make a good i
university, but such penny jiji
pinching can backfire if the
buildings that are designed are
so unappelaing as to be the $
anti-thesis of the beauty of ?
learning. g
It is too late to do anything j
about the design of the
Bingham Hall Annex or the I
addition to Venable Hall but
beyond that stage there is
room for admission of the rest iii:
of the University Community
into the planning for the :
future. S
Whether students and :
faculty are allowed to voice i
their opinions on where the $
University will go physically in
the future, all hinges on
whether the University wants
to remain the Southern Part of 1
Heaven or just go to hell. jij:
"Communication" is the most
overworked, indiscriminantly used
English word today. When two people get
together and neither one knows what he's
talking about, you have a
"communication gap". When someone
refuses to co-operate with someone else,
it is most stylish to place the blame on a
"lack of communication" or a
"breakdown in the lines of
communication".
Communication itself has assumed a
sort of mystical quality. The University
News Bureau released a rash of feature
stories this summer proclaiming the
effective lines of communication between
'The demands stem from
textbook examples of a lack
of communication . .
the Administration and the student body.
The features never spelled out just how
the communication worked, and the
reader was left with the impression that
South Building relied on ESP to confer
with students.
In the last month we have witnessed
two related textbook examples of a lack
of communication at Carolina. The first
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Letters To The Editor
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To the Editor:
Mr. Thompson, the Undergraduate
librarian, is absolutely right. However, he
did not go far enough. As I am sure we
are all aware, libraries exist for librarians.
Occasionally, however, we students slip
and forget. We, for example, borrow
books, thus messing up the neatness of
the stacks. We put our feet up to get
comfortable and, Lord help us, even fall
asleep on occasion. Clearly, some severe
reforms are in order. I suggest the
following:
1. putting all books under glass, so
they will look neat and orderly for
visitors, alumni, janitors, etc.
2. replacing the comfortable furniture
with long picnic-table benches and
employing monitors to use electric prods
on students who are dozing off.
Action must be taken swiftly, before
another chair is scratched.
Sincerely,
L. V. Asch
N. Greensboro St.
BSM Criticized
For New Methods
To the Editor:
What has happened to the philosophy
of the Black Student Movement? Is the
only way it can gain recognition by
making attacks and unreasonable
demands? Do the members actually feel
they can enlist support through such an
unfounded proposal as the removal from
office of a highly regarded university
official like Howard Henry?
Henry, is a successful man. He has
become so because he is accomplishing
the goals of his position. Unfortunately,
while acting in his role as supervisor of
entertainment presented in Carmichael
Auditorium conflict arose concerning
admission prices to the Stokely
Carmicahel speech on November 21.
Preston Dobbins says Henry refused to
allow admission to be charged; Henry
says this isn't true. In the ten years Henry
has been at UNC, admission has never
example involved the chairman of the
Black Student Movement talking with the
director of the Carolina Union for at least
half an hour and coming out of the
meeting with a misunderstanding over a
rather elementary set of rules. The second
example involved the same chairman of
the BSM asking about 6,000 apparently
deaf or uncooperative students to
contribute money for a function they
were taking the liberty to enjoy.
Preston Dobbins, chairman of the
BSM, talked to Carolina Union Director
Howard Henry on November 12 about
using Carmichael Auditorium for a speech
by Stokely Carmichael scheduled for
November 21. That Dobbins did see
Henry on Nov. 12 is about all the two
men will agree on, for both have entirely
different accounts of what was said at the
meeting.
Dobbins insists that Henry told him he .
could not charge admission to the speech
and would have to meet the costs through
contributions from the audience. Henry
insists that the matter of charging
admissions never came up, and that the
entire conversation centered around
methods of advertising and soliciting
contributions.
Although Dobbins accuses Henry of
purposely misleading him, it seems rather
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been charged to a speech; even so, he says
he did not forbid BSM to do so. Was this
a misunderstanding or is the BSM now
merely using their failure at raising
money through donations at the speech
as fuel to gain publicity for their
organization by burning Henry?
Surely 90 of the students present at
the speech were merely curious
spectators, and rightfully so, as Stokely
Carmichael is an impressive speaker and
has certainly made an impact on today's
thinking. The students present proved
they were not in support , of the BSM
program by refusing to donate
substantially to their cause. Students on
this campus are not so naive that they
would pay to see a program, in full
knowledge that their money would be
wasted in support of a movement that
now exists only on the controversy
provided by exploited situations.
Had there been an admission charged,
Carmicahel would have spoken to a
nearly empty CarmichaeL The BSM
surely must have known this, so they
figured they would gain more funds by
first attracting a full house and then
collecting donations. They were wrong,
just as they are wrong in seeking an
unjustified removal from office of
Howard Henry.
Despite the demands of the BSM,
Hefiry will continue at UNC. He is a man
of integrity and performs his job well;
one can only wish that the same were
true of the Black Student Movement.
Sincerely,
William J. Gordon
Beta Theta Pi
Sure Is,
Virginia
By JOHN BENNETT
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
Your little friends are wrong. He exists as
that Henry allowed the entire
conversation to proceed on an
assumption. Henry had been in charge of
letting out University buildings for years
now, and he has formulated a set of rules
concerning their use without ever having
published those rules or explaining their
application. Even after the SDS lost a
Judy Collins concert last year because of
confusion over the use of Memorial Hall
Henry still presented no set of fixed rules
open to all interested parties.
Yet after lengthy conversations with
both Henry and Dobbins it appears that
Henry based his Nov. 12 conversation
'Henry's reliance on the
psychic forms of communi
cation has proved disastrous'
with Dobbins on the assumption that
Dobbins knew what the rules were
concerning the use of Carmichael.
Henry's reliance on the psychic forms of
communication, however, has proved
disastrous once too often and he promises
to have a set of rules published by the
end of Christmas vacation.
The misunderstanding between Henry
certainly as love and generosity and
devotion exist. Alas, how dreary the
world would be if there were no Santa
Claus; as dreary as if there were no
Virginias for the Tar Heels to stomp on
Tuesday. Wednesday, your Christmas
came early against Duke, but ask
Kentucky and Vanderbilt if Santa Claus
exists.
Their response will be No, but Charlie
Scott, Rusty Clark, Bill Bunting, Eddie
Fogler, Dick Grubar, Lee Demon and Joe
Brown do and the 91 points they are
averaging will make your Christmas more
like a New Year's hangover.
While you have been laboring for your
ACC leading average of ninety some-odd
points against powerful competition like
Richmond, George Washington and a
Duke team that lost to no-name
Michigan; Carolina has been hicky to play
patsies like Kentucky and Vanderbilt.
Just think about that loss to G.W.
when you trot into the hostile glare of
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and Dobbins might not have been
disastrous at all if the 7,000 students who
showed up to hear Carmichael had
contributed a penny, it seems, because the
BSM grossed only S700 in the evening.
Even after Dobbins told the audience
before the quest ion-and-answer period
that the BSM had financial committments
to meet, most of the students saw fit not
to contribute. Although those who
attended were under no legal obligation
to contribute, they had, we think, a
moral obligation. They ignored this
obligation and freeloaded.
Now the BSM is demanding from the
administration the dismissal of Henry and
the amount of $7,000 to make up for
what it could have collected from an
admission charge to CarmichaeL The BSM
communicated these demands, along with
21 others, to Chancellor Sitterson
Wednesday. The Chancellor replied,
characteristically, that he would give
them every consideration. The whole
incident of the Henry-Dobbins dispute
seems to have gone into South Building
limbo for some time to come.
It seems unlikely that Henry will be
fired or that the BSM will ever get $7,000
from the Administration. Henry does not
deserve to be fired and the administration
has not made a practice in the past of
reimbursing groups for money lost, no
matter whose fault.
When Sitterson promised to reply to
the demands in writing, however, he gave
hope at last that future
misunderstandings can be avoided, even if
disagreement cannot. Communication, at
last, may come to Carolina.
Believe It!
When one member of the Point
Barrow, Alaska, Surf Club was asked to
quote the price of crumpets in Duck,
North Carolina, he was so unnerved that
he could not answer.
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10,000 Carolina peasants at CarmichaeL
Remember last year when you held
Carolina to a 108 to 64 squeaker. Well,
that was after a loss to Vanderbilt. We
were down. Chances are you'll be real Tar
Heels by the time you leave, Carolina
Blue. Don't worry, most everyone feels a
bit sick after playing Carolina. No,
Virginia, there will be no Santa Claus
Dec. 17.
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