T.HEJDA1LY TAR HEEL
Sunday, February 8. 1970
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Drop -Add in
The University ought to do
something about it system of
drop-add for the spring semester.
Each fall drop-add is set up in
the gym, and students, despite the
bother of having to spend a few
hours trying to adjust schedules
which have been perverted by
computers, derive of a number of
"advantages" from having
everything in the same place.
For one thing, if a student has to
wait for an hour or so on a line,
only to find that the course he
wants is closed, at least he doesn't
have to then go wandering half-way
across the campus to another
department, as he does in the
spring.
For another, if his first choice
for a course is closed, the chances
are that in the fall some member of
the department will be there to
advise the student on what other
open -courses might be acceptable.
In the spring, however,
department secretaries in many,
cases man the course cards and to
be frank, these secretaries don't
DTH Awards
BEAUTIFIER OF THE WEEK
Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson who
Friday broke off Faculty Council,
debate on a crucial issue concerning
the Trustees' disruption policy to .
talk about paving some of the paths
on campus. The beauty of the
campus was of the greatest
importance, he said.
POLITICIAN OF THE
WEEK-Chancellor J. Carlyle
Sitterson who, anticipating
upcoming visits to the campus by
alumni and trustees, called for
pavement of some of the ugly dirt
paths on campus.
MATHEMATICIAN OF THE
WEEK-Chancellor J. Carlyle
Sitterson, who recently defended
the proportion of blacks in the
student population (321 out of
16,430) in a letter to a black
former student. "You are correct
that the number of black students
in the University is small, though
not so small as your impression."
On Thursday the U.S. Department
of Health, Education, and Welfare
told the University it had a year to
get with desegregation, pointing out
the University's policy was fine, but
was not reflected in its practice. -
FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE
WEEK The - Committee on the
Status of Minorities and" the
Disadvantaged which presented its
annual report Friday, echoed
Thursday's HEW letter and
elaborated on the barriers facing
blacks in the University.
POLITICAL JOKE OF THE
WEEK Gunnar Fromen, chairman
of the Publications Board, which
said candidates for editor of the
DAILY TAR HEEL who appear
before the Pub. Board must turn in
an essay dealing with their basic
political philosophies. The Pub.
Board, however, is empowered by
"the Student Constitution to
supervise only the financial
operation of the TAR HEEL.
SPUNKY FELLOW OF THE
WEEK-UNC-Charlotte lecturer
David Blevins, who was found
guilty by the University Hearings
Committee of violating the
disruptions policy for not teaching
his one course on Oct. 15 in honor
of the anti-war moratorium. Blevins
will be given a hearing in Federal
District Court in Greensboro on
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the Spring
usually know anything about the
after courses which are offered.
The basic difference between fall
and spring drop-add, aside from the
locale, is that in the spring the
faculty advisors are conspicuously
absent. In the fall, these "advisors"
are present en masse in the gym to
"advise", but in the spring even
that aid to students is missing.
It almost seems as if spring
drop-add is not held in the gym to
save these accomplished faculty
members their precious time. Which
leaves the entire student body at
the mercy of the secretaries,
babbling and useless.
What we'd like to see, just once,
would be this University actually
going out of its way to do
something for the students. The
advisor system is pretty damn poor,
and as if that weren't enough, when
students try to get their courses
changed at the beginning of the
spring semester, the advisors are
absent, resting themselves for the
"teaching" and "advising" that lies
ahead.
of the Week
Feb. 12 on a suit against the
University.
HARD LUCK OF THE
'WEEK David Blevins, who was
told by UriTv ersity President
William Friday that no further
action would be taken on his guilt
for violating the disruptions policy
is not going to have his contract
with the University renewed.
FINANCIAL WIZARDS OF
THE WEEK-The University
administration, which announced
all incoming freshmen will be
required to live for two years in
University Rousing, and all
sophomore and junior transfers for
one year. The decision was made, it
was explained, out of an
indebtedness the University's
bondholders.
ARTISTS AND HISTORIANS
OF THE WEEK-U.S. Surgeon
General Dr. Jesse L. Steinfeld and
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, who rejected a bid by
federal authorities to let processors
trim off cancerous tumors or
lesions from chickens and pass the
rest of the meat on to consumers.
"This recommendation is based
predominately on aesthetic, historic
precedent, other considerations of
the public and on areas of science
which may be incomplete at this
time," Steinfeld said.
CIGARETTE SMOKERS OF
THE WEEK 12 beagle dogs who
contracted lung cancer after being
forced to smoke nine unfiltered
cigarettes a day for 21i years, which
is equivalent to about 18 years in
man. The implication was that the
same thing could possible happen
to men.
ASPCA (AMERICAN SOCIETY
FOR PREVENTION OF
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS)
AWARD OF THE WEEK-The
scientist who forced 1 2 beagle dogs
to smoke nine infiltered cigareytes
a day for 2Vi years, which is
equivalent to about 18 years in
man.
SP1RO AGNEW OF THE
WEEK -Psychiatrist Walter
Menninger, who suggested all
journalists be licensed by the
government before they can
practice.
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One of the tremendous breakthroughs
in my own struggle to figure out what
Christian faith could mean to me was
when I realize that sitting in a chair
requires an act of faith.
It seems funny to compare the
profound life-changing faith of
Christianity to sitting in a chair, but
day-by-day living offers case after case of
such faith in action.
Generally, faith is
an action based
upon trust in a
certain assumption.
When I drive a car, I
have faith I will
arrive safely at my
destination. I have
been told by
Jt' scientists that
' eieuiuwuy turns my
lights on. I show my faith in the system
by flicking a switch. Nearly everything I
do rests upon certain beliefs and
assumptions, some provable and others
not.
The question of faith is all-important
to the Christian, because faith is one of
the prime forces and the basic
prerequisite of Christian experience. The
author of Hebrews writes, "And without
faith it is impossible to please Him. For
whoever would draw near to God must
believe that He exists and that he rewards
those who seek Him."
The Bible clearly affirms in passage
after passage the power and necessity of
faith in a Christian's life. The faith
described in the Bible is not - that
simpering piety found in American
Churchianity, but a strong personal faith
which made and makes martyrs,
reformers, and saints.
Unfortunately, the strong faith which
dominates accounts of the early Christian
Church and to which Paul refers many
times seems to be lacking in modern
religion. Basically, I think we have
forgotten exactly what it means to have
faith. We have removed Christian faith
from everyday living and relegated it to
the "cupboard of theology and ritualism.
Because the word "faith" has become so
diffusely and loosely interpreted to mean
anything, many people are finding that it
means nothing in their own experience.
What does it mean, then, to "have
faith?" I was thumbing through Martin
Luther's devotional pamplet,
CHRISTIAN LIBERTY, and read, "True
faith in Christ is a treasure beyond
comparison which brings with it complete
salvation and saves man from every evil."
What kind of faith is like this? : I
And where does a chair fit in? f
I was impressed by the chair ;
illustration, because in this simple act I j
do a thousand times a day, I see three j
elements of faith that apply not only to
everything I do but especially to that I
relationship I have with God as well.
I come up to a chair, assume that it
will hold me, and sit down. So what does
this show me?
It shows me, first, that faith is specific.
A person doesn't just have faith, he has
U. Tenn. Student-Writes
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'DistuptioMs Policy 9 Reaches Other
(Editor's note: The following letter,
written by a member of the campus
newspaper of the University of
Tennessee, reflects many current
conditions in Southern higher
education, several of which bear
particular similarity to 'several issues on
this campus.) :
To the editor:
Some time during the last school year
the president of the statewide University
of Tennessee system announced his
forthcoming retirement, and students
around the state became concerned over
the choice of the new president.
By the end of spring quarter,
"presidential selection" was an issue
because it was already becoming apparent
that the students would have no voice in
the process. The Student Government
Association set up committee after
committee in an effort to gain a
meaningful voice, but their work, was
disregarded by the Board of Trustees
Letter to theEditor
Dear Mr. Editor:
I have read that you people down
there in Chapel Hill are being naughty by
useing too much prophanity and four
letter words. I have the same trouble.
When I look over the history of the past
forty years all that I can say is thoughs
dumb bastards. Back in the thirties
thoughs dumb guys sat around and did
nothing for national defence which the
Germans and Jap arises built up a large
war machine. They had no work, and
they were so stupid they could see
nothing to build even though our net
work of highways is still inadequate.
They couldnt even get a good retirement
program going that would give our old
people a little fun out of life.
All of that war and blood spilt that
never had to be. All this talk of
population explosion is nothing than a lot
of propaganda to justify all of that
legalized murder. All of the people dont
have to be clustered in New York,
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faith IN something. Faith requires an
object, in this case a chair. I believe that
it wm hold my immense bulk.
The Christian's faith is likewise
specific. He doesn't just believe anything
and call it Christian. It says in Hebrews
that "faith is the assurance of things
hoped for, the conviction of things not
seen." A Christian has faith' in these
"things not seen," in this case the
promises and claims of Jesus Christ that
say He is the Son of God through whom
God has reconciled Himself with man.
Secondly, if that chair collapses, my
faith has been no good and I am hurt.
Faith is only as valid as its object. Too
many people go around saying, "It
doesn't matter what you believe as long
as you have faith." It's scary the way we
play around with faith in this way,
because just as it doesn't work in a
society that has "right ways" of
functioning, it doesn't work in
Christianity. It might be said that people
today haven't lost their faith they've
merely misplaced it. But faith, no matter
how sincere or strong, is useless, if it is
wrong.
If Jesus Christ is not who He says He
is, Christians are in serious trouble. Paul
writes, "If Christ has not been raised,
your faith is futile . . . If for this life only
we have hoped in Christ, we are of all
(whose average age is somewhere between
65 and 70).
This Board chose Dr. Edward J. Boling
as president-elect of UT's system. Dr.
Boling is not an educator; he has only
two years teaching experience and his
prior role was vice-president in charge of
development. Students feel that Dr.
Boling is only interested in the physical
plant of the University rather than
upgrading the quality of education. The
committees set up by the SGA published
many statements to this effect in ample
time for the Board to take this into
consideration. Dr. Boling was declared
"unacceptable" before his selection by
not only the larger Knoxville campus, but
other parts of the University system
around the state.
Great dismay was expressed over
Boling's choice which was announced
during Christmas vacation in the hope the
students would forget about it by the
time they got back to school. ;
We didn't, forget, -however, and on
Chicago, and a few other cities. Thoughs
dumb bastards just want to have some
excuse for haveing wasted so much
money on war. After all, with modern
construction methods building can be
built even out in the ocean, and just who
can say how high they can be built or
how large. Wage and hour laws can be
passed that will give ever one a paid
vacation and earily retirement. I dislike
the horrors of war, and it really doesnt
need to be. The kids are a lot smarter and
wiser than the last generation, but I do
hope that they find a lot more ways to
fjht the establishment. Thoughs dumb
bastards.
Bill J. Bloomer
Box 589
Yancey vUle.N.C.
(Editor's note: The letter is reproduced
here in the exact form it was received.
Honest.)
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men most to be pitied..
Finally, and most importantly, faith
requires trust and commitment. In fact,
one of the root words of faith means "to
trust." Merely believing the chair won't
collapse is not faith. I exercise faith only
when I have trusted myself to it and
commit myself by sitting down. Faith is
not mere belief, but action based upon
trust in that belief. Peter didn't exercise
faith by believing he could walk on water.
He actually walked on water in faith. As
long as he sat in the boat with the other
disciples, he may have been safe but he
didn't have faith.
What does this primary characteristic
of faith mean to a Christian? The Gospel
emphasizes not only what Jesus
accomplished on the cross, but also man's
necessary response.
This is the punch-line of faith that
separates a Christian from a
non-Christian. The Gospel message of the
Bible says that God wants to have a
relationship with man, to be reconciled
with people who exist apart from Him.
He has made this possible through Jesus
Christ's death and resurrection, and offers
the chance to have a relationship with
Him to man as a "free gift of God." The
defining act'of faith for a Christian is the
accpeting of that gift.
January 15, a Brazilian former student of
UT who has a permanent residency visa
in the US challenged Dr. Boling to
physical combat in front of the
administration building. This "challenge"
was simply an effort to get the students
together and was obviously not intended
to be taken literally. Two thousand
students "got together" but when we
reached our administration building,
campus police were stationed outside.
Several speeches were made, none
requesting violence or any immediate
action, and both faculty and student
leaders spoke. More campus and finally
city police arrived in full riot gear. We
were requested to move across the street
and complied only after perhaps 15 or 20
minutes, due to much confusion caused
by the large crowd. Then "they" decided
that wasn't good enough, and we were
told to get off cur "hill" (the site of the
administration building). Somewhere in
here the first arrest was made no one
seems to know why.
A riot squad with sticks ready surged
across the hill, and we students refused to
move on the grounds that we were in no
way disrupting campus activities, inciting
violence, and that we had complied with
the original demand. More and more
arrests were being made, meanwhile,
including one student who was trying to
go to class and one who was trying to
change his class section.
SGA members began to be arrested
also, all of whom were trying to calm the
crowd down. There was shouting by both
sides and finally the students were
threatened with gas. We left, but many
regrouped at another site. The cops
followed these people, and a melee
followed in which policy went smashing
the heads of many innocent students.
Twenty-one arrests were made Fhat clay
and the days following, and these young
men are now facing prison terms up to
ten or more years. The Brazilian student
is also facing deportation charges brought
by a Knoxville legislator.
The 'Knoxville' f papers played the
The key to becoming 2nd b a
Christian, basically, is being able to trust
God enough to say, "Your way is rr.y
way." It is hard, sometimes.cn our pride
to accept Christ's statement. "I am the
way, and the truth, and the hfe. So or.e
comes to the father but by me." And yrt
accepting this is the basic cornerstone of
a Christian's faith.
But this is where faith stands, at
to me it's specific, must be valid, ard
requires trusting commitment. Thus the
Christian faith is no diffusely
wishy-washy attitude, but is clearly
defined and specifically outlined in the
Bible. And if that which we do even- day
requires some measure of faith. Christian
faith exists not outside daily experience,
but infuses it and makes more real, mere
rich experience with God Himself
possible.
It's hard to sketch out Christian faith
in the space of one column or twenty
books. But if we can get a clear outline of
Christian faith, being as specific in our
understanding as the Gospel is in its
message, we can begirr to intelligently
confront faith and see its implications for
our lives.
Have you ever considered why you
have faith in a chair?
Or what it means to have faith in Jesus
Christ?
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situation down, and headlines appeared
concerning the facts that most UT
students didn't know what was going on,
and, as a topper, that this was the first
time the Knoxville police had gotten to
use their brand new gear. One editorial
described the demonstration as a few
score students trying to take over the
administration building.
The attorney general of the state
pressed charges, and just happens to stand
to gain considerable political advantage
by the conviction of these young men
and women. The judge handling the case
allegedly told several students they were
guilty before he had heard the case.
The law that covers the felony charges
against these students states in essence
that three or more students trying to
disrupt the campus is a riot. What about
football games? There is talk of testing
the, constitutionality of this law, but we
have no money and no support.
Ben Taylor
UT Daily Beacon
Knoxville, Tenn.
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