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Keep The Daily Tar Heel
The referendum to determine
whether or not the Daily Tar Heel
will exist next year is on Tuesday.
A yes vote Tuesday means there
will be NO newspaper next fall.
The opponents of the Tar Heel,
who are backing the referendum
and hoping that students vote YES,
claim they can not be forced to pay
for the newspaper, especially if
they disagree with its editorial
policy.
There are a number of things
wrong with that argument. First,
the students have a choice every
spring, in a democratic election, as'
to who the editor of the newspaper
will be for the following year. The
opportunity does exist, because of
the elective process, to choose an
editor whose philosophy, political
and otherwise, appeals to the
students.
Further, regardless of the
particular philosophy of the editor,
he is a student and he is going to be
the most influential voice for the
students in the face of the
University. Without the Tar Heel,
there would be no "watchdog" that
could operate as effectively as the
newspaper now does.
The Tar Heel also provides the
students, as well as the faculty and
administration, with news about
what is happening on campus.
Without it, the campus would have
to operate without this extra sense.
How -would someone know, for
instance, what the free flicks were,
who vvas speaking' in Memorial Hall,
how the basketball team was doing,
or even, that a group of students
w:mted to do away with the Tar
A Game That Isn't Fair
Dean of Men James Cansler's
position on trying students for drug
violations denies the student body's
stance on the matter. The
double-jeopardy amendment seeks
to insure that students tried in civil
courts for offenses will not be tried
in student courts for the same
offenses.
But Cansler's statement that the
University will try students if the
students don't try themselves
refutes that law. He implied that
the whole idea of student law and
student government means nothing
if the administration does not wish
to recognize it.
The students can have their court
system, and their legislature, and
their officers. And those officers
can play their games as long as they
understand the limits to which, they
can go.
But once the students try to take
a position in the game which the
administration doesn't happen to
like, then the game is over.
We don't especially think
students should oother to play the
game any longer. All that is gained
by bending to the will of the
administration is that the game is
perpetuated.
By "the game," we mean the
situation in which the students are
never going to accomplish anything
but what the administration wants
them to accomplish. For the most
part, the students who participate
in student government fulfill a
function for the University. They
make it easier for the
administration to carry on its own
business.
Because there are student counts,
the Dean of Men's office doesn't
have to try all violations of the
Honor Code. Because there is
student government, the,
administration doesn't have to set
up a special office to handle
student problems. Because there is
a student-run orientation program,
the administration doesn't have to
take the time and money and
personnel to get new students
Freedom
Todd Cohen
Editor
Bobby Nowefl
Harry Bryan
Bill MiHer
Bob Chapman
Mary Burch
Art Cha risky
Associate Editor
Managing Editor
News Editor
Assoc. Managing Editor
Arts Editor
Sports Editor
Bob Wilson
frank Stewart
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
Pettr Hatch
Night Editor This issue
Heel?
That's a good point. Without the
Tar Heel, how could the Committee
for a Free Press have gotten so
much publicity on campus?
People in this University are far
enough away from each other now,
even with the Tar Heel. To take
away that one somewhat unifying
factor, would be to bring about
chaos a little more quickly than it
could be expected to occur
naturally.
So why, one wonders, does the
Free Press group want to do away
with the Tar Heel? Perhaps because
it disagrees with the Tar Heel
politically. It says it is opposed to
the newspaper taking a radical
point of view. It is not that the Tar
Heel takes a political point of view,
it is that it takes a radical point of
view. The implication is that a
conservative paper would be okay.
That argument is weak, for the
simple reason that the students
have some say over what kind of
philosophy the paper is going to
have. The editor is elected.
The Free Press group is not
opposed to the Tar Heel as an
institution. It is merely opposed to
the fact that sometimes in a
democracy, you can't always get
what you want.
But this argument of theirs
should not be permitted to hide the
fact that the Tar Heel is an
important organ for this campus.
Vote NO on Tuesday. Keep the
Tar Heel. Having a source of
campus news and a watchdog of the
administration helps you a lot more
than it hurts you. v
acquainted with the University.
So student government serves the
administration. But it does not
necessarily serve the students. In
fact, when student government
seeks to serve the students by
sponsoring such measures as the
double-jeopardy amendment, then
the administration pre-empts the
student's rights to establish their
own laws.
It's about time the students
involved in student government
started thinking about what they
can really do to make an impression
on the administration. Compromise
does not appear to work. So it
might be a good idea for some kind
of protest to occur. Perhaps the
members of the court system, and
the members of student legislature,
and the members of the executive
branch might all refuse to work.
Even better, they might all resign in
protest.
That's a lot to ask for. It doesn't
make sense to request that people
resign, because if they resigned,
what would they have to do? They
wouldn't be able to pretend they
were important and actually served
a purpose for the students.
The important thing to
remember is that without a student
government, nothing would change.
The people in student government,
on the whole, do so little for the
students that they all might as well
resign.
And even when some good is
provided by the student
government, the administration
declares that good deed null and
void.
But on one is going to protest.
Protest is the coward's way out. To
really prove himself, the student
government member has to break
his back for years to prove he is
right. Then, broken and tired, he
still will not realize how powerless
he really is.
oul-Food:
"Religious comment," two co-editor
candidates said last week, "should be
reserved for the pulpit."
Their statement surprised and
frustrated me, not only because it was so
inconsistent with their promise to
"embrace a myriad of philosophies," but
also because it fundamentally mistakes
,.,,, -? the purpose and
; "f. message of
' Christianity.
One of the
biggest tragedies of
the Christian
Church, I feel, is
that Christians have
taken their
"religion" out of the
world where it
belongs and chained
it to a pulpit.
It's largely because religion has been
confined to the pulpit and separated from
everyday experience that American
Churchianity has become such a virulent
sham of Christianity.
Hypocrisy, legalism, negativism,
intolerance, and an all-too-blind link with
Americanism have been the results of a
religion that touches people only during
"holiness" hour on Sunday and makes a
strong distinction between "secular" and
"Christian."
Religion, to me, most becomes real
and vital when it is forced out of the
pulpit, and into practice-where it is
applied in the workings of ordinary
experiences.
The modern revolt against the
institutional church and the formation of
small non-denominational groups has
often been cited as evidences of people
revolting from biblical interpretations of
Christianity.
In fact, the goals of many of these
groups and the expressed desire of many
"non-religious" people I've talked to on
campus has been the same to follow a
belief that promotes interpersonal
relationships, urges a hard and meaningful
expression of love, hates injustice, and
works for the betterment physically,
mentally, and spiritually of all men.
And these are goals which the Bible
has been involved with all along goals
which the established, status-quo church
has often abdicated precisely because it
has stayed piously in the pulpit.
Reinhold Niebuhr has defined religion
"as the whole of man adjusting himself to
the whole of life." Churchianity is
abhorrant even in the pulpit; a Christian
who wants to truly adjust himself in the
New York-A Nice Place To Visit But
Ben Singletary"
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I doubt that John Roche's selection as
ACC basketball Player of the Year really
took anyone by surprise. I mean, it didn't
really come as a total shock.
Of course, everyone here at Carolina
wanted to see Charlie Scott get the
award, since many people felt he had
been slighted last season and his
performance this year even exceeded that
of 1969. But then, this is a southern
conference and the feeling was always
sorta there that if the writers could pick
anyone else without their motives being
obvious, that's exactly what they'd do.
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Sight of Biblical teaching to the whole of
life around him would, and does, choke
when artificaiSy confined to one nice day
of the week.
What good is Sunday religiosity that
doesn't apply to a businessman on
Monday? Or to a student in his
relationships? What good is religion if it
doesn't concern itself with the lives of
people and involve itself only with
abstract theology and forming ecumenical
councils?
And what good is religion if the only
time it can be mentioned, explained,
explored and presented is safely behind
the wooden pulpit facing rows of freshly
washed, harmonious faces?
Religion has to be stripped of its
religiosity and forced back into the
world. The chaos, disorder, injustice, and
inherent evil in the world have forced
Christians "to paint or get off the
ladder."
Christ wasted no words. He spoke in
synagogues, but he spoke to the people in
the streets. He talked about loving God
and existing in a relationship with Him,
but He showed through His healing and
His actions that He loved men. He was
unfailingly honest, blistering the
hypocrites with an acid tongue,
confounding skeptics, denouncing human
Letters to the Editor
Another Look At Student Elections
To the Editor:
For the past two years, I have been
quite apathetic toward student
government. The reason for this apathy
lay in the events preceding the student
government elections in the spring of
1968. 1, a freshman, was approached by a
Party Agent and given a dollar
(membership fee) to attend sufficient
meetings of the other party to obtain a
membership card. With this membership
card, I was to attend the Convention of
the other party and vote for the weaker
candidate of the other party this was to
insure an easy victory for the original
Party Agent's candidate in the general
election. This sounded really exciting to a
naive freshman who saw the proposition
as a chance to enter the activities of the
"big time" on campus.
The night of the convention of the
other party, the original Party Agent
arlie?
Well, There's Next
And they did.
So now there will always be the
skeptical who say Scott was robbed, just
as there will be those who contend that
Roche was twice the player. There will be
those who cry "racism" and those who
reply just as loudly that Scott's being a
Negro had nothing to do with it. And no
one will ever really know the truth.
Except the writers who voted; those
men from Babbling Brook Township and
Three Crooked Pines and Boroughville or
wherever they happen to live and write
the local sports column. They'll always
know who it wras they voted for and,
more importantly, why.
But that's really not so important
now, is it? Because all the votes were
counted last week and Roche had the
most and nothing's going to change that
now. I was thinking more in terms of the
future. Suppose we all take a little trip
into the great beyond and look in on the
Player of the Year Announcement, 1975
(Commissioner's Office) "I know you
reporters are wondering why I've asked
you here for this press conference today.
Well, it's that time of year again when I
have the pleasure of announcing the ACC
Player of the Year. This year the
sportwriters have selected Carl
Zebrakowski from the University of
Virginia as the Player of the Year. Now
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suffering and evil.
He demanded much of people. Of His
followers. He demanded complete fai:h in
Himself and equally complete love for
each other. Of those who were not
already followers. He forced and forces
them into complete confrontation wi;h
Him and with themselves.
"I arn the way, and the truth, and the
life," He says without hesitation. "No
man comes to the Father but by me."
This is a hard thing to accept, but
Christ demanded nothing less than
complete acceptance. And he honestly
said so everywhere He went.
The early apostles were no less fervent
in either their triumphant proclamation
that Jesus Christ was Lord and Savior or
in their insistence that Christianity be an
all-consuming way of life.
"Religion that is pure and undefiied is
this." James writes, "to visit orphans and
widows in their affliction, and to keep
oneself unstained from the world."
"If a brother or sister is ill-clad," he
says later, "and in lack of daily food, and
one of you says to them, 4Go in peace, be
warmed" and filled, without giving them
the things needed for the body, what
does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has
no works, is dead."
Christianity, if taken seriously.
came to me with a sliD of paper. On the
paper was a question that I was to ask the
stronger candidate of the other party, and
so that ultimately the original Party
Agent's candidate would win the general
election.
When the convention began, I began to
see through all the foul-play th&t I had
become involved in. As the weaker
candidate gave his speech, I realized just
how weak he was. Then, the stronger
candidate took the stand and gave a
terrific speech. I was really impressed.
Then this stronger candidate asked for
questions from the floor. He masterfully
fielded first one question and then
another. I was so won-over by his
composure and knowledge that I tore up
the slip of paper that contained the sticky
question of the original Party Agent. I
then proceeded to vote for the stronger
candidate.
From that moment until just a couple
of weeks ago, I was completely apathetic
to the corrupt party politics of UNC
student government. Yet I have always
realized a need for an effective student
government. Therefore I support the
election of a capable independent
candidate for the Presidency of the
Student Body. The victory of such a
candidate would force the parties to
revamp their corrupt, stagnant systems.
This president would not have to "pay
tribute" to party agents like the one that
tried to manipulate me.
I hope there are many more students
who, having been apathetic toward
student government for the past couple
years, will see in a capable independent
candidate a chance for student
government to re-open its eyes to the
immediate problems of this campus. If
elected, this candidate would not allow
student government to remain tuned in to
the superficial wants of one party hack or
another.
Dave Tayloe
321 West Cameron Ave.
'College Scribes
To Pick MVP?'
Dear Mr. Cohen,
Since the ACC is supposed to be an
association of universities, wouldn't
selection of the ACC basketball Player of
111 be glad to spell that last name for you
after the meeting, since you may not be
familiar with Carl. You see, he sat out
most of this season with an upset
stomach. But while he was on the court,
Carl was one of the greatest, scoring 6.2
points per game and pulling an average
.042 rebounds.
"What's that question again, sir? Oh,
you want to know exactly how many
games Carl was in. Well, he suited up for
two games one againt the Hotsprings
Lawnmower Correspondence School and
one with the Christian Athletes Out of
Action. But he did real well in the
scrimmages, I'm told.
"Now as everyone here remembers,
there was quite a stir back in the spring of
70 when we railroaded Charlie Scott out
of er er I mean when Mr. Scott lost
the award to that kid from South
Carolina. I forget his name Roche,
Johnny Roche, it was. Now I know that
are going to be those bad sports who will
say that racism was involved in this year's
selection. Weil, that's just not so.
"I mean, North Carolina does have a
75" boy . . . er, Negro player who did a
fairly good job for them this year. Think
he averaged 41 points a game and 25
rebounds. Not bad, considering. But the
point is that these writers did their best in
fairly judging the boys and they chose the
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requires a Christian to be acthe a a -
evil and suffering in all phases of ,f?. v.!
just in Church.
Paul and the other aposites spreji
Christian Gospel everywhere they
Paul spoke in homes, in market p: -Ps ,
synagogues, in prison wherever he nto
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Christian to speak up. to profess h:s f.i :
and to live it.
It's because Christianity need ;0 r
taken out of the pulpit and relied h:i
into life, that I write as honestly 2-
openly as I can. "Soul Food" eery
I don't and can't please everybody. B;
am doing the best I can to be rea ?
logical, and relevant to the !;ti; cf
individuals who want to become -h
people in the midst of a fractured
confused existence.
I'm only one voice among nu-y
Other Christian columns appear
countless newspapers across the country,
from weekly columns like "Sou! Food'
to small daily columns. Others say more,
and say it better.
But as a Christian, journalist, and ore
man among many, I can do no less and be
really true to myself.
the Year make more sense if chosen by
persons closest to the universities? Let
the campus newspaper sports editors
make the choice. My judgment is that An
Chansky is a better writer and more
perceptive observer than one expects to
find in sportswritiing. Perhaps other
collegiate sports editors in the ACC share
his professional competence; if so, I'd like
to know their Player of the Year choice.
Michael E. Bishop
Assistant Professor
Of Journalism
Hits Candidates
Stand On Religion
To the Editor:
I am writing this letter in reponse to
comments made by Dennis Benfield ,
candidate for editor of the DTH, in the
March 11th issue of the same paper. In
his comments Benfield stated that his
editorial page would contain a "myriad of
philosophies" and in the very next
sentence he stated "We feel religious
comment, or in the case of the DTH
sacreligious comment, should be reserved
for the pulpit."
This to me represents a direct
contradiction. How can Benfield say that
he will have all philosophies represented
in his newspaper and then in the very
next sentence say that he would not
allow religious philosophy to appear? It
seems very clear that this is no more than
a candidate allowing his personal bias to
dictate how he will run a newspaper.
If this if their idea of "responsible"
journalism, Enfield and Benfield will be
poor editors and make for a poor paper.
Richard Stoner
2408 Granville South '
Readers Forum
Letters to the editor must be
typed and double-spaced, not
exceeding 300 words. 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.
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best man. And, just to show everybody
that these writers were without bias ar.d
are capable experts, we've asked them to
indicate on their ballots this year why
they voted as they did.
"Now I'm going to select a few of
these ballots at random and read the
comments, to you so everybody will be
satisfied that this voting was fair and
square. Here's one from a sportswriier in
Red Beaver Falls. He writes that he voted
for Carl because 'he's a fine young boy
and my son's roommate at UVa.' See? No
racism.
"Here's one from a man who's been
writing sports in this area for 30 years. He
-says I voted for Carl because I've been
Writing sports in this area for 30 years
and I got your letter saying if I voted for
him you'd put in a good word for rr.e to
get a job in another area' ... er ... let's
get on to the next one. Here we go!
"This gentleman says "I voted for Carl
"because his grandmother lives down the
street from me and she showed me his
baby pictures. Although I've never ;seen
him play, she says he's a good sport and
sits patiently on the bench and never gets
mad when the coach doesn't play him.'
Now I ask you, has one of these men ever
mentioned race? Can you still doubt their
talent, their motives, their sincereness?"
Hope Charlie knocks 'em dead at the
Garden.