North Carolina Newspapers

I 1 Friday. Jcnu Pace Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Rick Allen rm 77 yn o Editorial Freedom an Come TIi Pete Ivey's 'News' ' BurMiil Pete Ivey5 University News ..Bureau boss, comes out with more -questionable news releases each iay. A release Thursday reported ;the findings'of the Blue Committee, .the Student Legislature group 'which has . been investigating the financial operation of the DAILY TARHEEL. " The primary recommendation of he Blues Report was that the .TAR 'HEEL remain as the . campus newspaper, free from administrative control, and that the required student fee continue as a financial jsupport'for the paper. , " But Ivey in what has become a elassic;style' based on ambiguities, ibscurftie liis f;r)eys;release by, reporting one of hedesse.tecommendations of the plue'l&mlttitt?e; ttiat of procedures for reeaUing'Zthd editor of the TAR HEEL: His ...second paragraph h0tr ' Tm HEEL denounced that -section of the Blue Keportl;-: But Ivey's release does not cease to be curious after. we recognize its obvious slant and bias and distorting of the news. He also reports that the Blue Committee "found that fee collection 'is a legitimate method of financing and urges its crmtimiation." -,, .. ., "Found"?: Ivey seems to mean that the Blue Committee discovered, some obvious " fact. The Blue committee did not really; say why required student fees for the TAR HEEL are "legitimate"; it 'did not cite the specific laws dealing withw that alleged legitimacy. And the doubt about such legitimacy has been the center of the controversy doncemibgtM TAR HEEL this year. ' . Freshmen Battle I The Class v of 1973, which presently does not stand to benefit from the General College Teforms proposed,. ..by the Merzbacher Committee, 'has taken as; a class project " the . attempt to make the changes retroactive for the' current $rop of, freshmen. The clask- plans to present petitions, .hopefully containing several thousand names from among -thtren tire student body, for consideration by the Faculty Council next month. Effecting major changes in the GC curriculum-drastically reducing certain traditional requirements and making others optiorial-the;" Merzbacher reforms are designed to become effective in the Fall 1970 Semester. " ' Why the Class of '73 should have been excluded from coverage by the reforms is unclear. However, Freshman Class President Joe Wheeler has . indicated that Dr. Eugen Merzbacher, chairman of the GC committee, supports the project to extend the revised GC plan to the class. If the doors of perception were cleansed everything wuld appear to man as it is, infinite For man has closed himself, til he sees ,-all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. ... "v.'-'.' -Blake Todd'Cehea' Editor Tom God3 - Lur White Bobby NowtU . Mry Burch , ArtChany Managing Editor Newi Editor f- .'. Associate Editor Arts Editor ; - . -Sports Editor'.-' Bob Wilson , Bufcness t&tv&f Z". Frank Stewtrt - -Advertising ttensgsr ; Peter Hatch . Night Editor this issue ; Yet ' Ivey.-.repprtx vtliat ; the committee h3d "found"; tHe fee to be legitimate.. v,!;;:': Ivey's reporting: .technique is to assume what rcannofemVfact be assumed. He' ;assurhed;"'.that' the . thrust of;.the;.3iu;ep6ft;.-;that there are now hewsugtroris- for procedures for firing the 'editor of the TAR HEEL. ... But Bill - Blue, who. wrote the report, denies " Ivey's contention. Blue said, on reading Ivey's release, that Ivey' Had taken, the section on recall of , the, eciitorV,."out . of context." ..." . 'That's not what I meant at all," Blue said. ;1 was just trying: to; guarantee .that" the "editor would be responsible,wridt that we could grill him whenever we wanted."? Ivey also assumed thaC the finding of the committee that fees are legitimate was based on actual legal statutes. - But neither the Blue Report nor the Ivey release cited those legal statutes. ; . Ivey's releases are the official sources of information for the public about " this University. Bu t they carry with them the unique character of being the distortions of the facts as created -by Ivey. If Ivey is going to disseminate the truth as seen through the eyes of Pete Ivey, why doesn't he at 46asWake-efedjt f or his stunning work? Being i the boss of a university news bureau is notthe kind of job for a true artist. But then again, there is always the attraction of a powerful position, such; as boss of . the University News Bureau., - u r:... : "f; " r : ' - ' -v. In ; any event, " whoever is responsible for Ivey being where he is might pay more attention to this disturbing distorting mouthpiece. Tlie Bindsaiir It will be tragic if this .year's freshmen are required to be the last students to labor under the long-ago antiquated General College - programi Apparently all that stands in the way of their inclusion under - the Merzbacher changes are the old administration singsong excuse of "too much red ' tape" ' in the transition. ; ; " , However, if such sweeping renovations may be "afforded to over 3,000 entering; frosh in the fall, we feel the University whould negate the "red tape" factor and make the changes retroactive to the survivors o f the class pf 73 . After - all, the antiquity of the old General College, system is in no little part responsible for the c a sualty " rate among first-year . students: here reaching as high as 40 per- cent dropouts in recent years. - - Those freshmen who make it through this year should be the last to have to operate under the GC dinosaur. The University owes them that much. With spring just around the corner, many a young man's fancy turns to finding a successful wav of avoiding the draft. Over the years, quite a stockpile -of ingenious methods has been tried. Jv favorite has always been the neat little 9t 4r mr f-rr trick of tattoing an obscene suggestion on the flat of the right hand. In this fashion, a military salute becomes something more than a gesture , of courtesy. There was a time when it could result in -a permanent deferment. , As most artful dodgers are aware, the V.' Readers Forum " Letters to the editor must be typed and double-spaced, not exceeding 300 wordi The letter writer must indicate his willingness for his opinion to be expressed in print. All printed letters must carry the name and address of the writer(s). Letters should be addressed to the Associate Editor, care of The Daily Tar HeeL Student Union. Letters 'Free Press' Member Deplores 'Distortion' To the Editor: Since the Committee for a Free Press began its activities several months ago, there has been a continual distortion of the aims of the Committee by Student Government leaders and the columnists of the Daily Tar HeeL First the Committee was deemed too small to notice, since only a few of its members signed the original letter to the Chancellor. The issue of individual rights was then systematically ignored and the false issue of censorship raised. The self-serving staff of the Daily Tar Heel has portrayed itself, in opposition, as a t corageous : I sic band pf well-meaning, sincere (trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, etc) journalists crusading for freedom " of thought at the risk of martyrdom. And now (February 7) we have the latest excuse for the Daily Tar Heel, the right to know; the Daily Tar Heel is a community bulletin board, no less! It must really have hurt to have to use that argument to justify the privileges of the Daily Tar HeeL It is a tacit admission that the editorials and columns are not relevant to the concerns of most students. (Editor's Note: The opinion of DTH editorialists, expressed in personal columns in no way indicate those of the editor of the editorial staff as a whole.) There is no mention of the miniscule sic coverage afforded to most campus events of a non-radical sort. This may be perhaps accounted for by the contempt .the Editor has publically expressed for such irrelevancies as fraternity news and the Campus Calendar. Also, now we have the scare campaign, charges that the paper will fold if it does not ha2 compulsory student subscription enforced by the University. The same people who quite properly decry a conscript army, compulsory sophomore dorm life, and in loco parentis, now justify forcing other students to subsidize political, religious, and social views which are" abhorrent to them. The penalty for defying this coercive act is to bethe sic suspension of the student from the University. Where is the pius sic talk of individual rights and personal freedom? Where is the much-vaunted liberalism of UNC and the Tar Heel? Perhaps this scare tactic will work. It may be possible to convince the student body that to recognize individual rights is a dangerous precedent. If so, such tactics of oversimplification and scare campaigns will have done their job. - A free press requires that it be supported voluntarily, not by force. Other newspapers do not find it necessary to coerce others to subscribe to their views. What is the Tar Heel afraid of? s Paul F. King (No Address) w . . The Daily Tar Heel, is -published g. 'i$ by the University of North Carolina f ijij - Student Publication's Board, daily p i except Monday, examination 8 periods and vacations and during p summer periods. i$ : - Offices are at the Student Union g Bklg., Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel HO, N.C. 27514. Telephone $ numbers: editorial, spotts,: i news-933-1011; business,; S circulation, advert isir-933-li63, Address: Box 10S0, Chspe! HS, g $ N.C. 27514. ft Subscription rates: $ 0 per year, jf, ) I per semester. :We rtrtt that w& rt ; can accept only prepajo subscription?. ' Second ciass'postag pld at -Pt nffirp in Chanel Hill. N.C. 14 .'.MiWAV.W.' military will not induct anyone convicted of a felony. The trick has been to find a harmless, serious crime It so happens that shooting an American eagle is a felony, but carries no sentence and a fine of only $500. -With a properly licensed gun, all one needs to do is go to the Washington zoo and fire when ready. A young Jew I heard about tried to get a conscientious objector deferment, but was informed by his recruiter that Jews have a history of violence and hostility, and have virtually no chance of obtaining a CO. Taking these sentiments to heart literally, this particular young man punched the recruiter squarely in the nose. A few days later, he got a mental deferment. Another fellow paid a cripple $100 to take his physical for him, and got a ' natural 4-F deferment. Unfortunately for him, a group of protesters destroyed the records of his local draft board, and he was forced to shell out another hundred for a second physical. If all this .sounds ridiculous, that is precisely my intention. The point - is, there are.-a" number of honorable r m i z r 9 m m n it if1 m m Lynda Stedman A m Expression Of Loimeiines It was Monday midnight in the village. Echo mimicked the long hollow sound her boot heels made on the brick sidewalk. Rain pattered warm patterns on ; the walk, on her face and her hair. And she remembered, the poet who thanked ; God for dappled things. She walked the shadow outlines that ' lay long across her path. Balancing on toe tops. Spreading arms like bird wings. Humming mild melodies. "If that golden wing gets lost, , Mamma's gonna buy you an albatross. ' She looked behind her. It was alright. The game was over and each of the motored cars had'followed its own headlight path into the night. She remembered the drivers of those " automobiles and their soft companions. She had seen the pairs of them earlier that evening leaving the game as spectators, returning as lovers. s Embracing in hallways. Laughing under umbrellas. All laughing lovers are beautiful, she had thought while passing them. And . they had made her sad. She remembered someone had said our side had defeated the other side. She shrugged and jumped onto the stone wall that accompanied the sidewalk through the village. It was ail hers for a while. She walked on it and ran on it and became bored with it so sat down on it. She lay her arms across her knees to make a pillow for her chin and folded her self down into the still and moonless night. She become fascinated with solitary things. . . ' Like the bird sitting on the street lamp that bunched his feathers up as if from the chill and then soundless flew away from the light. . Like the oak skeleton beside the wall that pointed boney fingers to the sky and shook a little as drops rolled cold down his bark. - She befriended a three-legged dog that stopped by her perch to put his cold nose in her hand. He licked her wrist and she . talked to him about little things. Then together they found the new grass. - She had been playing with the stiff winter stubble, entwining it between her fingers, breaking the brittle away-until she found the underneath soil. Below it was the single blade of grass. It was brave growing there all naked and green in the night. ; . She dug tunnels around it trying to find end to it, and then she decided some things are better left undiscovered. So she . tucked her pet plant back up for the night, padding and packing his bed cell with the loose earth. She knew spring was just behind the -wall, behind the clouds, behind her own temples. And alternatives to the dratt. Perhaps the most courageous of these is going to prison. The conditions of our prisons are horrendous and "draft dodgers" are often baited bv guards and tortured by their fellow inmates. Homosexuality is a fact of life. Obvious!y, going to jail is not an easy"cburse-it is taken out of desperation and a deep commitment to ideals. It is an act of almost equal courage to leave, the country. It takes guts for a young man.to abandon his family and friends,, to reject life as he has always known it, to suffer the loneliness of expatriation; Does "any country have the right to ask this much of its youth? My answer is no. We young owe a great deal to the U.S., but not our lives or our ideals. " To' be sure, there are times when a man feels he must die for his country. This may be an unpleasant thought, but history has proven it to be so. But if a man must die for his country, it should be his decision. He must not be m m. - i a , . - . - A-.-v - - --f-' she told the dog about it. " But he didn't,: hear. He was trotting away down the walk home for a bowl of something warm or to a thicket bed. She didn't know which. ; : It was time to go now. She walked to her automobile and climbed inside. The vinyl was cold on her back, and the slick steering wheel- made her palms ache cold. She had only one glove. A key madethe motor moan deep inside, the metal body: Then it started up. -She switched on her radio, but static cut the silence, so she turned it off and listened to her own. thoughts. Ah Masters Taili Ok. Treasure? Ask The Collector As we begin this new semester even new decade it is with a ray of hope I write this article. There is no real purpose in writing it I'm not an SDS, BSM, CCC, or anything else by nature. I write only to' express the feelings of one average, yet individual student who amply loves people. s. This fall "semester. I periodically noticed a short, gray-haired old man stabbing the various paper debris around our beloved campus. No particular reason to notice him feel confident he holds no degree, sits on no committees, makes few decisions affecting the lives of others, probably spends his Saturday nights at home, may not even own a car. A real nobody just an honest, very simple human being. . - Yet the bothersome air about this old fellow is that he is always smiling. Not just on beautiful sunny days when things naturally go better with Coke, but on those damn dreary days when a slight mist is falling or after a Chapel Hill snowfall with all that slimy mush making the pathways to education very slick. One day I couldn't resist speaking to the old fellow no, I didn't get his name, where he was from, how much he made or why in God's name he could be happy picking up our trash. I just said hello, made some stupid "intellectual comment," and then asked him about his smile. Si He told me, without referring to the Handbook of Physics and Chemistry, that he arose with the dawn at 4 a.m.'each day, worked around his home until about 7 a.m., spent his day on campus, and returned home to rest. How the hell to become a soldier agai.-.st We must loosen the cntera fcr conscientious objection, and uhir.i;-) ask only volunteers to fight our wari " If a tt.zz if tn serve as a sold er. he must do so out of free choice, becau wants to serve, or because he feelj he should. Obviously, many men are goinj to f that they should not serve. Some v. i:i fe? this way from cowardice, others frcni conviction. In either case, it must be tf-.ej decision. In the meanwhile, as I have aid before, there are enough problems here a: work to keep an array of men burr seeking to solve them. Service to Arnerici should be required, but not if it is to b odious to those who participate. . This is not a plea to leave us alone, bet to let us serve our country in a way that squares with our convictions. i ' . There was poetry at home that had to be read before tomorrow. There was a bed there with two pillows. . She drove a little faster. The puddles made sloppy sound splashes as she drov4 through them. Home. ; -I She lighted the place. Opened he? book. And for a long time read in silence! There were no distractions to keep her from herself. Only the sound of a clock ticking and the wind wandering around outside. Someone whispered a familiar name into the empty room. !" ' She went alone to her bath. could one be happy doing this every day? And be really happy at ease with one's self and one's brother a natural peace of mind? I was (am) amazed! Here was the first man I've met in five years of higher education who was enjoying life simply for the sake of living. I thought to myself grades, drop-add lines, pressures, exams, grad - school, etc.-sure, I'm educated, sure I'll make a living, get married and put a few more helpless sculs on the merry-go-round. But you know, I really wonder who has tasted the fruits of a worthwhile life? To me, they couldn't print enough degreesfrom now until hell freezes that I wouldn't trade for a happy, meaningful, stimulating, something-to-wake-up-in-the-moring-for kind of life to get excited about not a pill or drug to fool yourself. But that's not where I want to end. Just a word of tribute to the little old man with his bag. His bag of trash-and in that bag, my friend, he holds more treasure than'y ou or I will ever know. So, this spring, when you see him, don't take his picture so one day it will be spread oyer 16,000 copies of the DTH. Don't ask his name or request an interview. Just speak to hirn and be thankful our educated, computerized, drugged, polluted society hasn't "solved" this man's -problems. Thank whatever or whoever your god may be that there really are people left in the world-that life, after all, may even be worth the ball game. And mos;t importantly-return his smile-ami If it doesn't seem too unnatural and uncomfora!:b!e, wear it all day. forced will. . , urn n