Saturday. March 14, 1970
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"HE DAILY TAR HEEL
Kirk Allen
A Years of Editorial Freedom
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Politics In North Carolina
urts Need For Visitation
Dean of Men James Cansler
makes it seem as if the students are
going to have a hard time getting
24-hour, 7-day-a-week visitation
There is a committee studying the
present policy, he said, but if it
doesn't think it can implement the
wide-open policy the students
want, the trustees will have to make
the final decision.
That attitude is a familiar one
around here. The administration
can't really pass the desired policy
for the students, because the
trustees or the citizens of the state
might not like that.
The students want nothing more
than to live like people, not like
children. The administration ought
to start treating them like people.
The administration also might
want to think about making life in
Administration
Preempts Law
The administration has once again
stated its position on the
double-Jeopardy issue,' maintaining
it will try students Tor drug. cases.
Dean of Men James Cansler made
that clear when -he said that
v:;ml!ess of the "double-jeopardy"
i .merit and the absence of a
ulent drug policy, the
umistratidn has a responsibility
i- try students for violation of the
University's policy.
Apparently the student
referendum which said students
tried in civil court could not be
ritd for the same offense in
student courts does not mean very
much to Cansler.
What this means is that once
again. the students have been had.
Student law is worthless as long as
it interferes with the
administration's idea of how things
The Adams Committee which
has been studying the funding of
the Daily Tar Heel will not submit
its report to the Chancellor until
after the referendum on the Tar
Heel on Tuesday.
That is very unfortunate. The
future of the newspaper is at stake,
and it might have some effect on
the students were the findings of
the committee known to the
students before they voted.
Apparently the committee has to
rewrite its section on the fee for the
Tar Heel. Even if that is the case,
and the report cannot actually go
tudents: 6L
The administrative board of the
General College and the College of
Arts and Sciences made an
interesting change in the ROTC
Report before it .went before the
Faculty Council last week.
The change affected the
Governing Board which would
administer the Curriculum on War
and Defense. The original proposal
of the Taylor Committee provided
for four students to sit on the
Governing Board one AFROTC
cadet, one NROTC midshipman,
and two students not enrolled in
ROTC.
The administrative boards altered
DTH Kepor
Todd Cohen
Editor
Bobby f.'oweH
Harrv Bryan
Bid Milter
Bob Chapman
Mary Burch
Art Chansky
Associate Editor
IManaging Editor
News Editor
Assoc. Managing Editor
Arts Editor
Sports Editor
Bob Wilson
Frank Stewart
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
Saunders Night Editor This Issue
the dorms a little more bearable.
Now that students are going to have
to live on campus for an extra year,
being able to live like normal
human beings might not make
University housing quite as
loathsome as it is now.
But Cansler doesn't think or act
on such levels. He lives in the real
world where a Board of Trustees is
a group to kow-tow to, especially
since the trustees of this University
happen to be so conservative, to say
the least.
The students would be surprised
to know that in some institutions
of higher learning, administrators
are actually able to make decisions
which they think are progressive,
and right.
But this isn't any old institution.
And this isn't any old Dean of Men.
Drug Policy
tudents
should be done around here. The
students can have all the trimmings
of self-government, but when it
comes right down to the power to
make hard decisions which are
going to affect the community
here, then the real power belongs to
the administration, not to the
students.
Unfortunately, that's the way
life usually works, no matter where
you are. You possibly can use some
form of public demonstration or
civil disobedience to protest such
acts of blind decision-making by
the powers that be, but to really get
to the core of the matter, the best
thing to do is try to find a place
where people like Cansler do not
exist.
Otherwise, you'd better learn to
live with the mess.
t Is Neede
before the Chancellor until later
next week, we would hope John
Adams, who heads the committee,
might be willing to release the
report in its present form,
regardless of its tentative nature, to
at least .give the students an idea of
where the committee stands on the
matter. ,
The Tar Heel is an important
institution on this campus. The
students need to know what the
committee thinks before they make
a decision which could make or
break the paper.
the section, recommending that
only two students sit on the
board one ROTC representative,
and one non-ROTC student.
Raymond Dawson, the Dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences,
explained the change by saying the
membership of only two students
oa the board would "cause less
trouble."
That's an interesting point.
Oh. yes. The Faculty Council
passed that proposal.
Of S
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"I swear, to read those DTH
columnists you'd think the student body
here was as apathetic and far right a
group as the John Birch Society."
The more I think about that sentiment,
which is expressed often enough, the
more I tend to agree. At feast, the
students of UNC deserve some credit.
It may not be evident from my
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columns, but I think
Chapel Hill is a fine
place. I have spent
the four happiest
years of my life
going to school here.
There are some
special things about
UNC that go too
often unmentioned.
Foremost is the
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- general atmosphere
of change that permeates the campus.
Four years ago, Chapel Hill was another
v in a series of collegiate homes for the
oft-maligned "grit".
It is easy to massacre in print the
beer-drinking kid from some small,
conservative town in the state's rural area,
caricaturing his only mission in college as
the search for a good time.
But the more I think about it, this guy
is helping the rest of us without even
knowing it. He tolerates the changes that
go on, and in doing so he is giving us his
tacit support.
We cannot all be revolutionaries, and
we cannot all be committed to kicking
the establishment in the kidneys. At first
glance, our goodtime Charlie is letting the
world go to hell without lifting a finger.
But he is listening to us. He may not be '
an active campaigner for the New Left,
but I have yet to meet anyone at this
university who has said unequivocably
that he "couldn't give a damn".
More often than not, the "typical"
student will disagree with me, but he is
willing to argue and discuss. He will state !
apologetically at the start of the
conversation that he is a "conservative".
but that "I can't help the way I was
brought up". The amazing thing is that he
is often much more liberal than he had
begun to imagine.
For instance, one amiable fellow -informed
me that he was a conservative,
but that the war in Vietnam was a dumb
mistake. "We ought to bomb the hell out
of Hanoi and win," he said, "or get the
hell out. It isn't worth all the lives we're
wasting." - .
I said, "If it isn't worth the loss.of '5
lives, why kill all those people in Hanoi? r
If you don't think it is worth our lives,
how can it be worth all those Vietnamese
lives?"
A light came into the man's eyes and
he agreed with me. At heart, he had been
pretty much opposed to the war, he just
hadn't been able to see that to a
Vietnamese, his life is as precious as an
American's is to an American.
I hadn't hit this guy with the New Left
hardsell and I hadn't converted him into a
revolutionary, but at least he had been J
Letter To Tlie Editor
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To the Editor:
The distinguished racist from
Mississippi, John Stennis, is on the right
track when he said that there should be
an amendment to abolish trial rights for
radicals. However he implied that he was
refering to white radicals and he did not
mention blacks. I think he should have
plainly stated that all blacks arrested for
radical activity should be given no less
than ten years imprisonment or
immediate execution.
Big John has behaved somewhat
heartlessly in recent weeks concerning
another issue. His anti-busing bill was
comendable, but he was quiet when some
yankees said that blacks have been bused
for years to segregated schools. Big John
should have replied that H.E.W. is trying
to bus real Americans, that is whites, and
that is an entirely different matter. After
all, blacks are fortunate to be going to
school here in the first place because they
are not real Americans. Didn't we bring
them over here? -,
I would like to urge Big John to
remember why he is in Washington. He
was not elected to dilly-dally around. He
was elected by the good racists of his
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willing to listen long enough to change his
thinking, or at least to realize that his
thinking was deeper than he knew.
When he left, this fellow was as
convinced as ever that he was a
conservative, but here he was opposed to
the War in Vietnam!
Now, my leftist friends will say that he
probably went back to drinking his beer
without giving his revelation any thought,
and that he was no more committed to
ending the war than he had been.
But in fact, I met this particular
student while I was enjoying a beer
myself, and it is entirely possible thatjie
repeated our conversation and changed
another mind.
This is how people change their ideas
. . . over a beer, during a fraternity party,
or chatting before a class.
It is easy to get impatient because it
takes so long for people to re-evaluate
their thinking, but here at Chapel Hill this
change is happening, much faster than we
realize.
John
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As the race for DTH editorship goes
down to the last gasp, columnists
generally take to endorsing the candidate
of their choice. Some do so for
friendship; some, because they actually
believe theirs is the best man; and still
others, because they've been bribed by
offers of a position on the paper in return
for their support.
No columnist endorses someone who's
not a close friend, who probably can't
win, and wTho if the stars turned in their
courses and he somehow did win offers
the columnist nothing but the
gratification of having supported the right
man. This, then, is not an endorsement.
I will have something to say about the
election in my Tuesday column. There IU
endorse the candidate who I think is most
likely to restore the average student's
confidence in the Tar Heel without, at
the same time, turning it to pap by
virtue of his intelligence, temperament,
honesty, and ability to discern good from
bad, issue from sham.
But all that is for Tuesday. My column
; today is about a - candidate I!m not
endorsing, Bobby Nowell. ;;. .
I'm not endorsing" him. I've been
accused of having a bandwagon
mentality, and this after all the
psychological and philosophical refuse is
cleared away may really be it. The
reader may well detect a certain
ambiguity in my viewpoint so there is. If
I can perhaps inject a little uncertainty
into my reader's mind for there is no
greater stimulus for thought 111 have
succeeded in what I'm setting out to do.
Nowell is the dark horse in this
election. He has little or no organization,
Reprimanded
state to defend the supreme principle of
white supremacy. Although he clearly
believes in this principle he better stop
pussy-footing around unless he wants to
be replaced by the Nazi candidate next
election w-ho I am sure would give us
Mississippi whites a more representative
brand of democracy.
Frank Neal
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Dear Prince Charles,
(or failing in that)
Dear Charles T. Prince,
I have just received your first reply,
and want to thank you, especially for the
stamp on the letter. Your mother looks
very regal, particularly in a blue dye.
I played polo for the first time the
other day, a sport I have long admired
insofar as you yourself partake of its zest.
After the opening pagentry, which we
include for authenticity, we all raced
onto the field ,of battle, our mallets
waving in the sun, and began whacking
the old ball around the field.
I found myself tiring, despite the fact
that the game had not begun. I soon
noticed that most , of my teammates
seemed to be mounted on horses, which
struck me as a great improvement over
my running from one end of the field to
the other on foot. It was an exceedingly
long field.
In no time at all I was soon mounted
pommel high on a fine gelding. This
provided immense relief to my aching
calves for perhaps the space of five
seconds. Then the horse decided to move.
Heretofore I had been concerned with
hitting the ball with the mallet, but
suddenly found all my attention on the
ever-widening gulf between my saddle
and myself. I kept repealing the dictum
from "Animal Farm" of "four legs good.
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that I know of, working for him. I've seen
scarcely one of his posters, no literature
tables, and surely nothing in the way of
the expensive comic strip of a newspaper
which one of our candidates put out just
to prove that the goal of making the Tar
Heel a sensitive, high quality campus
paper was after a 11 -overrated.
In short, Nowell has remained aloof
from the blather of hard-sell which has
inundated campus of late.
He, I believe, attributes his aloofness to
integrity. I don't know. Integrity is
closely akin to the fear of being
compromised, and those who have that
fear are always safest standing at the
pinnacle of their convictions, alone.
On the other hand, integrity is a
frightening thing, and it may be that I,
and many others, have lost the will to
perceive it vitally, much less embrace it. I
can hardly psychoanalyze Bobby Nowell:
but what he has-vhether it's integrity or
the honorable fear of being
compromised is different from the
campaign posters and litter that you can
.r pick , up in the Pit. Different; better; and
it renders Nowell somewhat alien,
unbending, and unapproachable.
Implicit in these last mentioned
qualities is a tendency to perverse
self-dramatization, which I can hardly
approve of. In its own way, it smacks too
much of the self-laudatory campaign
posters some of our co-candidates have
been putting out. But, again
The difference is in the quality and
power of the man's mind, and the fact
that the character which informs his
actions is character indeed. The tragedy
of politics is that campaign material, poor
effigy that it is, is often an all-too
accurate measure of the mind it purports
to represent. This is no less true of
campus elections than of any other.
Nowell, of course, has solved much of
this problem by having little or no
campaign; his public relations is
nonexistent; and he's gotten a bad,
disastrous reputation as a columnist for
the Tar Heel. People are willing to excuse
wrongheadedness and incompetence. But
Nowell 's columns have more often than
not been damningly on target, and this,
to them, is unforgivable.
The worst of it is that Nowell
sometimes is objectionably arrogant so
much so that he wonders why his
campaign generates so little enthusiasm.
two legs bad", but the simple addition of
two appendages to a beast that already
stood fourteen hands higher than my
usual altitude was destroying my sense of
timing altogether.
On the plus side, however, I certainly
had not been given a slow horse. No na
this, I thought, as we veered southward
through a small throng of fascinated
spectators. Why, I mused to myself as the
playing field receded in the distance, this
horse could run all day and still kick in
his stall if I give him his head.
It was only after we entered the
once-distant forest that I entertained any
doubts about his directional capacities.
After the second thorn hedge I was
ascribing qualities to my stead not
normally found in the drift of public
conversation.
A great cry of exultation from the
grandstands somewhere behind me broke
the string of invectives. Someone has
scored a goal, I remember thinking as mv
dislodged saddle carried me grasping for
loose mane with it to the underside of the
horse. I would have inquired just whose
goal, but there seemed to be no one
around who would know. At least not in
the portion of sky that was my field of
viiiun.
At length I eased my horse's giddiness
with soothing oaths and great blows to
the side of his now -foaming head with my
'oiiiicai Cumpmigns
He cannot, or, as I suspect, will not
understand that the world in which he
lives is not an ideal one, and that he must
adapt his actions accordingly.
There is nothing creditable in this. It's
quixotic, without being wistful or
pleasant to watch. Ultimately, it's
cowardly; it's like self-flagellation; you
take your licks and then feel that, do
what the world will, you at least are safe.
But this is off the subject. The
campaign, as I said, is sputtering. Nowell
complains that too many people have
told him that they'd like to vote for him,
but don't want to throw their vote away
on a loser. He calls this "bandwagon
mentality."
I incline toward the view that Howell's
problems stem from his failure to present
himself as a tenable candidate. His
virtues, I say, are not understood; his
vices are. He says, "Take it or leave it."
That's where things stand. Nowell is
the most experienced candidate; he is the
only candidate who has erred, in his
campaign, on the side of integrity; his ;
mind is extremely powerful; he is
arrogant, unsympathetic and often
unsympathizing, and self-righteous, a
fault which is never justified. And he
cannot get a hearing because, for all
intents and purposes, he is not of this
world.
I ask the reader to ponder the subject
of this column. I have not tried to play
games with anyone's emotions; I have not
tried to sentimentalize Nowell's faults, as
I see them nor his virtues, which can also
be quite objectionable.
The purpose of this column is not to
endorse someone without saying so. If
the reader finishes the last paragraph and '
jumps up exclaiming, "Ah! Nowell's a
fine chap!" he's missed the point entirely.
If the reader just lets his mind play with
the materials I've presented it Nowell,
the Tar Heel, the campus, by implication,
our society and value system as a
whole I'll ask nothing more.
Tuesday, I will endorse a candidate for
editorship of the Tar Heel, and present
my reasons for supporting him and no
one else. I will also demonstrate a
phenomenon called "discontinuity of
experience," for I will not refer to this
column, not once.
The reader, if there is one, who has
gone this far with me, will understand the
rest of the way.
Polo Player
mallet, which I began to suspect was its
original function.
I did not hold it against him that he
chose to cease his meanderings in the
middle of a bog some seven miles from
the polo greens. After all, this was one of
the dumb beasts of the earth.
Nor did I resent the fact that the
supposed mastery over these dunb
beasts, as promised by God in the Bible,
was, generally speaking, absent.
I further did not object to his relieving
himself as I struggled with my one good
arm to pry my lower torso and m<et
loose from his undercarriage.
But, after reaching solid ground, I must
confess a degree of irritation when he
smiled at me.
And there we rested until some hours
later, when the club helicopter spotted
us. I would have asked them to bring a
shotgun and put the poor beast out of his
misery, but feared they might shoot n:?
instead of the horse.
Oh yes. We won, 5-4.
And the team has asked me not to play
for them again next week.
1 modestly accepted.
I remain, humbly,
Robin Brewer, Eq-
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