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Sitterson Standing On His Head
The latest report from Student
Body President Alan Albright is
that in his talks with Chancellor
Sitterson last week two significant
events occurred. First, Sitterson
revealed he was going to conduct a
student opinion poll, through the
resident advisors, to determine
what to do about the food service
after SAGA leaves. And second,
Albright proposed to the
Chancellor that a group
representative of ail interested
parties somehow assist Vice
Chancellor of Finance and Business
Joe Eagles in his- efforts to reach
such a determination.
Sitterson's plan to hold a
student opinion poll is at best
questionable. He has shown such an
incredible disregard for student
opinion in the past concerning the
food service (especially on the
matter of hiring SAGA in the first
place) that his sudden sensitivity to
the feelings of students leads one to
ask, "Why now?"
Why now? We might recall that
the quality of food SAGA dishes 1
out is so bad that the majority of
students who used to eat there have
found better places to eat. For
example 1200 meal tickets were
sold in the fall, as opposed to 600
this spring.
So Sitterson will ask students
how thev feet about eiitim: at the
food , servicer-hen- the eating ;
patterns of , the students . have
radically and maybe permanently
changed.
Albright, however, has come up
with a . constructive idea. Why
should the University, which has
demonstrated up to the present
time a complete inability to handle
the food service itself, or to hire a
caterer that can handle the food
service, have the sole responsibility
to decide the fate of the dining
.halls? The University has revealed
itself to be so inadequate and
'Crazy Guys': A Story
The following story was
submitted to the DAILY TAR
HEEL by a UKC coed, who
explained it was written by her
sister, Lora Evans, age 9.
The story, entitled "Crazy
Guys", speaks for itself. It is the
product of someone who.
hopefully, has not yet been totally
perverted by some of the more
ignoble parts of this world, and this
country.
Hoping that Lora Evans' story
will not be tainted with
Communist, obscene, and atheistic
labels by such individuals as are
want to project such things onto
the TAR HEEL, here is" "Crazy
Guys" by Lora Evans, untouched
by our hands:
One day a giraffe stuck his nose
in a' football game. He watched the
ball go in the air and wished it
never came down. Because he
didn't want anything higher than he
was. So one day an elephant came
on and buted in on it. The giraffe
was mad because the elephant was
fatter and had swords coming out
each side of his mouth. The giraffe
shouted don't kill me don't kill me
or I'll die as the elephant was trying
to make friends. But the elephant
started to charging him for
disturbing the peace. With noise
making. Unarmed how disgraceful.
All the elephant needed was a
badge. The elephant got so mad he
pulled off one of his tusks and
made a badge out of it. Then he
said I'm the boss around here and I
mean to be. The giraffe got so mad
Todd Cohen
Editor
Tom Gooding
Laura White
Bobby Novell
Mary Burch
Art Chany
Managing Editor
News Editor
Associate Ed.tor
Arts Editor
Sports Editor
Bob Wilson
Frank Stewart
Bosness Manager
Advertising Manager
Peter Hatch
Night Editor this issue
incompetent in this matter, that
someone else should be given the
opportunity to weed out the ills
and to devise a better way of
feeding the students.
Regardless of what the eventual
method of operating the service will
be, the University has no reason to
make the decision itself, other than
the unfortunate fact that it owns
the dining halls.
Perhaps the Chancellor might be
convinced that Albright's proposal
is the best thing lie can do for the
students, and for everyone
concerned with the food service.
The University has no place trying
to make a serious decision all by
itself. The University, frankly, has
been a total failure on the matter of
the food service. It could not run
the dining halls last year and had to
hire SAGA. And it has permitted
SAGA up to the very present (when
rumors of more lay-offs still
abound) to permit managerial
atrocities which have damaged the
well-being of both the workers and
the students.
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The University has failed, and it
is now time to accept, and even
better, to invite, the help of those
concerned parties: the students, the
workers, and the faculty, as well as
the. administration Sitterson can't
expect to stand on his head forever
and still keep the University afloat.
And if Sitterson hasn't got the
foresight to make a strong decision,
President Friday ought to step in.
Friday is the man in this University
who has both the power and the
will" to act decisively. He has a habit
of working behind the scenes to
keep things moving in the right
direction. We hope he will do so in
this case.
he pulled off one of his two little
things on top of his head. Then he
said I'm the Boss. The elephant got
so mad he pulled off his other tusk.
The giraffe got so mad he pulled off
his other little thing on top of his
head. Then a football came through
the air. The giraffe and the elephant
got so mad they stamped the
gravity off the earth. The football
the elephant and the giraffe went
flying up. They were about a mile
up, then the gravity came back.
They all came back to earth and
fast. But the elephant and the
giraffe killed themselfs. As the
elephant sank, into the sunset he
said, Fm done for.
Sorry
A DAILY TAR HEEL editorial
Friday, headlined "Freshmen Battle
the Dinosaur" stated over 3000
freshmen will enter the University
in the fall.. It also reported the
casualty rate among first-year
students here has reached as high as
40 percent in recent years.
Both statements were errors.
According to a figure provided by
Director of Admissions Richard
Cashwell, the present freshmen
class has an enrollment of between
2600 and 2800 students. And
according to the Registrar's Office,
by computer projection, the
average rate of dropouts over the
past four years is been 12.8
percent.
We apologize for the errors in.
Thursday's editorial.
bimon says;
Will everyone who was closed out of a
course this semester please raise one
hand?
Next. Simon says will those who were
closed out of two or more courses raise
both hands?
All right, Simon says retrieve vour
copy of the TAR HEEL from the floor
and see if you can dig this:
Playing the Drop-Add Game at the
beginning of every semester is even' bit as
infantile as playing Simon says!
The format of the
1 ait y
lrop-Ada uame is
essentially similar to
the rules of Simon
Says. However, the
part of Simon is
invariably performed
bv an uncooDerative
r
4 A rrt i rt S ci m t iAn s
1
named Raoul who
sits astride South
Building with a shirt pocket full of
precious class tickets. The number of
other players in Simon Says all
students may number into the
thousands. The more the merrier.
The glee of this administrative ogre is
almost maniacal as he watches the
student participants do his ridiculous
bidding in an effort to secure one of his
class tickets. He knows that he can ask
anything of the students, because they
cannot get the courses they want if they
fail to carry out his commands.
I have already tired of this
mock-serious approach to a problem of
the utmost gravity. The above
fantasy while not entirely an
oversimplification is merely intended to
show how ludicrous the whole concept of
drop-add really is!
MAJOR PREMISE: THERE IS NO
EXCUSE FOR DROP-ADD.
IF A STUDENT WANTS TO TAKE A
COURSE, HE SHOULD BE ALLOWED
TO TAKE IT!
Basic principle: the university exists to
serve the educational needs of the
students. This assumption may be true in
principle, but IT IS NOT TRUE IN
FACT.
Think about that. Why should you
have to stand for hours in a Drop-Add
line? Why should you have to grovel in
vain before a professor trying to get one
of his class tickets? WTiy should you be
forced into incredible mental anguish
because you can't get the courses you
want, semester after semester, no matter
Letters To The Editor
IT?
Press'
My Dear Mr. .Cohen:
It is usually pointless to attempt to
debate the idiotic utterances of John
Agar, but when his name-calling reaches
the proportions of libel, we must insist
upon a retraction.
In today's paper (Feb. 10), Mr. Agar is
bemoaning the country's unconscionable
shift to the right (the one true statement
in the column), and lambasting the.
"Silent Majority" part of which he labels
the "proto-fascist 'free-speech' movement
which has tried to gag the Tar Heel'."
Not too very long ago, Senator Barry
Goldwater won his suit against Ralph
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how hard you try or who you know?
If you have to do anything more than
sign a preregistration form to get a course
you want, then the university is not
serving your educational interests!
Speaking as a layman and this
university is full of laymen standing in
Drop-Add lines I see a great part of the
problem in (1) inflexible curriculum, and
(2l unwillingness of certain "regular
faculty' to advance anything other than
their own "specialty" field
Sections of courses should be formed
and abandoned according to the demand
of students. Instead, when you get a copy
of the university record for next year,
youll likely find that many courses in
each department have already assigned
instructors for both semesters, never
taking into consideration the fluctuation
of student demand for courses.
This practice should be reformed so
that each department can provide
instructors proportionate to the number
of students seeking a course.
Perhaps something should also be done
to modify the power of professors who
arbitrarily limit the size of sections
concurrent with their own idea of the
"ideal class size." This delimitation is
done at the expense of students who pay
for their education and whose parents, in
the case of native North Carolinians, pay
taxes to support the university.
I realize that profs have to write their
pamphlets to retain the "almighty"
Ken Ripley
B
ahy Food: A Treacherous Die!
That baby food is some stuff.
Last semester, towards the end, I
decided I'd go on a nice, calm, sane and
sensible diet. With great care and
deliberation, I chose
one with my figure
1 in mind.
I quit eating.
Now, I have
something against
starvation. The lack
of nourishment and
sustinence is
definitely
the first dav. I
detrimental After
dreamed of steak and woke up in a lather
of Sweat, shatrintf all mror Tk - 1
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avs "Name
Ginzberg for the libellous statements
made against him during the 1964
Presidential campaign. Last August, Gore
Vidal added "crypto-Nazi" to the score
of insults he had already reeked upon
William F. Buckley, Jr., and now finds
himself facing suit for libel. Perhaps Mr.
Agar would like to be next?
Not only is the charge untrue and
absurd, it is also in direct conflict with
the opinion of the editor of the Tar Heel,
Todd Cohen, who has expressed
sympathy with our position from the air
waves of television to the depths of his
editorials.
On November 23, 1969, the editorial
states: "It appears quite clear to us that
the way in which the Daily Tar Heel is
funded, namely, by student fees, is both
unfair and in conflict with the nature of a
free press." One wonders if Mr. Agar was
aware of the opinion of his editors or
perhaps he doesn't read the Tar Heel, like
most of the rest of us. Surely if he knew
that the editors were opting for this
"proto-fascist 'free-speech' movement"
he would feel honor-bound to sever his
relations with them. Unless of course he
likes "proto-fascists". .
But obviously neither the editors of
the Tar Heel nor the Committee for a
Free Press are '"proto-fascists" ("proto",
incidentally, means "first in status, chief
in rank or importance; surely Mr. Agar
could find SOME group which even he
believes is a tinsy bit more "fascist" than
tenure but an increasing number of
students are becoming "fed up" with
waiting in line to prostrate themselves 3?
the feet of these scholars so that they
may too wTite pamphlets one day.
It has always seemed a bit ridiculous
to me that four sections averaging about
20 pupil aDiece. taught by Ph.D-s are
provided for a required course in a certain
department, when an introductory course
in the same department has only one
section with one instructor (odds
favorable that he will be a part-timer or a
grad) and nearly 300 students!
Administrators commonly decry the
lack of classroom space as a drawback to
more course sections. But look around
and you can easily detect a lot of holes in
that argument, too. Every building on
this campus has rooms which could pass
for classrooms, but for unknown reasons
aren't used as: such. Large classes could
meet in lounges, in rooms in the student
union, in the dining halls, or even in some
of those great concrete mausoleums
towering, half-occupied, on South
Campus!
Students including myself who have
wanted a course badly enough, have been
willing to sit on the floor, in window sills,
or even stand. It is a small discomfort
which becomes even smaller if the course
material is sufficiently captivating.
Abolishing Drop-Add, then, would
require the stripping-away of much
inertia and self-indulgence of
night, I dreamed of steak and potatoes,
smothered in a succulent gravy and
surrounded by fresh garden peas, topped
off by a nice piece of pie and four cups of
coffee with cream and sugar. Again, I
woke up, saliva dripping off the pillow.
The third night, I -dreamed of Lenoir
Cafeteria and woke up screaming, fear
and nausea gripping my stomach. I
promptly decided three days of starvation
was enough. I was beginning to
hallucinate.
But who in their right mind would eat
baby food for straight four days, except
babies?
I was determined to lose weight. Each
night I gravely opened up two jars of
baby food a meat and vegetable
combination and a fruit dessert. I locked
up all my money, so I couldn't buy any
food. During the day, I roamed campus,
eyeing bagged lunches with a lean and
hungry look. -
. Now, I've got nothing against baby
food, no matter what the nice
manufacturers put in the jars to poison
the little tykes. I've happily downed
quarts of cyclamated Kool-Aid at a single
sitting. Since the announcement banning
cyclamates, I have saved 555 precious
little packets of artificial sweetener, 16
cyclamate. Besides, the greasy kid stuff
wasn't that bad for a kid.
In a way, I have to admit the diet of
baby food did have its pleasant moments.
Eating the little jars of premasticated
nourishment brought back fond
memories of long forgotten taste
sensations, vague little thrills like eating
gooey cereal and cold milk from that
little artificial nipple. As I relearned the
gourmet delights of my distant youth, I
remembered once again why I had
forgotten in the first place. Yech, that
stuff was bad.
But, unfortunately, the baby-food diet
was fraught with treacherous pitfalls, not
the least of which was the kind solicitude
of the grocer who kept asking how my
baby was. Of course, when I told him
they were for me, his snickers were
worse.
- Caller' A
the 'free-speech' movement.) It is obvious
to anyone who stops to think that
requiring everyone to pay for any paper
(especially one with obvious political
prejudices) is coercive and "unfree".
However, ever since this campaign
began, the hypocrisy' of some so-called
Liberals has been amazing, even to a
Conservative such as myself. They are
deathly afraid that the Tar Heel will
either expire, OR that they will have to
begin paying per copy, or that delivery
"might not be as convenient. In other
words, thev fear that if evervone who
doesn't want the thing is allowed to stop
paying for it, that those who do want it
may encounter a little more trouble in
getting it. So by all means, force everyone
to keep things as they are. Forget the
rights of the minority. This minority
doesn't holler TOO loudly
... In this column, Mr. Agar accuses
the Committee for a Free Press of
appealing to the "silent majority's
inheritant distaste for freedom." Which
"silent majority" does he have in
mind? . . .And WHO is appealing to an
"inherent distaste for freedom? . . .Just
who are the "proto-fascists"? . . .
The Committee for a Free Press
suggests that Mr. Cohen extract a
retraction from Mr. Agar, and print it
forthwith.
(Editors Note: The Committee did
not advance anyone to fill the position of
gar I
administrators and facultv . I rv ;,-..
t!i-"!s too would he nuite n i'' - - .- .
their pjrt in the change.
For example. compulorv
p re-resist ration for both semesters
addition to being the only real vvjv ;
evaluate course demand, would n be a
unreasonable request of students ;-, ;s
elimination of Drop-Add.
The Office of Records cou! 1 , r i
prepared p re-registration forms v
students about a month prior h
beginning of the next semester. If there
were no "dosed courses." studer.:.
should have been able to pre-register f t
any course they desired. However, if thtv
desired changes, they could return ;h
corrected form to Records HQ.
If students were to return the
prervgist ration forms approved or no:
bother to return r. hem the Office couM
assume the course of study to be fir. ah
Students, faculty, and administratis
would be able to eliminate Drop Add
with a conscientious refinement of the
very elementary suggestions. To corrupt a
tired adage one more time: "Everybodv
talks about Drop-Add, but nobody does
anything about it."
You should be cb!e to get the
courses you want! If you can't, the
University is hindering your
educational fulfillment !
Take up arms against the "closed
course!"
My first practical problem was trying
to feed myself. I kept having to suppress
a strong tendency to play with my food. 1
found that chanting, "I am 19, 1 am 19. I
am 19" was helpful. I was embarrassed,
though, when I kept spilling spoonfuls all
over my front. I no longer scoff at bibs. It
isn't the kid's fault. Baby food is made
that way by the manufacturer Non-stick
cereal.
After several days of personal
experience with baby foods, I am
convinced that the reason children don't
talk earlier is that they are starving to
death. Towards the third day, my
conversation was becoming limited to
derivatives of the word "ma ma" and
"pa-pa," for the simple reason I didn't
have enough energy to say anything else.
My advice to parents is, let the kids eat
meat. Okay, so it breaks their teeth. But
they'll tell you so.
There was one big problem that finally
forced me to go off this,diet. I think 1
could have lived with all the other
hang-ups, as long as I was losing weight.
Slowly, in fact, I was dropping off
pounds. But I knew it wouldn't work.
I hesitate to mention this problem, but
public service demands it. Now, I
consider myself to be housebroken, at
least reasonably so. My parents were good
to me. They taught me well.
Bill Cosby said it best. "I never
change diapers," he said. "No, sir, I can't
stand surprises."
Well, I was surprised.
The baby food diet is over now, put
aside to past and memory. I'm still trying
to lose weight, and I'm keeping an eager
eye out for new and effective ways of
shedding bulk.
But, to this day, I will never
understand how those poor little
creatures, so helpless and small, can put
up with that stuff that leaves them weak
and leaking. Jealously, I must confess
they have an advantage I never fu!!v
appreciated until now. A Mother.
Try to burp yourself sometime, and
see.
'Miotic'
"Conservative Columnist" when the DTH
advertised for one last year. Mr. Agar, as a
staff editorialist, is entitled to his
opinion, just as a conservative writer
would have been.)
Trent Oliver
(No Address)
Writer Asks All
Funding Be Studied
To anyone who cares:
Are all students captivated bv the
exploits of the Fighting Tar Heels? Is
everyone vvrapped-up in the petty
business of our Student Government? Is
each one of us anxiously awaiting the
announcement of Morehead Residence
College's next "Sex Day"? The answer to
each of the.se questions is, no. Likewise,
not everyone agrees with the opinions
expressed in the DTH. So why all the
hassle over compulsory funding of the
student newspaper alone? We must
remember that, on the average, a single
student is interested in only two or three
of the numerous operations which he is
required to mainta:n by the payment of
his fees. Therefore, we cannot debate the
necessity of the existance of anv one of
these organizations without considering
t-qually the elimination of all the others.
Phil Kasev
203 E. Rosemary St.