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Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed on its editorial page.
All unsigned editorials are the opinions of the editor and the staff.
Letters and columns represent only the opinions of the individual
contributors.
Tuesday, March 23, 1971
Tom Gooding, Editor
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Student Government acted on a
wise premise when the decision was
made to go into the printing
business.
However, a serious mistake was
made when it was decided to place
the print shop under individuals not
experienced in the operation of a
print shop.
The original objectives of the
shop were commendable. The shop
was supposed to print The Daily
Tar Heel at less cost, saving the
paper money that could be
transmitted into more pages and
copies per issue. A quick copy
center was to be established to
provide a service for students.
Quality printing was supposed to be
slowly developed until it provided a
major source of income for Studnet
Government.
Last summer we argued that the
print shop should be placed under
the DTH. We felt it was only
natural to let the individuals that
work in the printing field
administer a print shop. When this
was vetoed, we argued that at least
the part of the print shop that dealt
directly with the day-to-day
production of the newspaper
should be placed under that
newspaper. This idea was vetoed.
, .We made one last attempt, at
sanity by requesting . that the
Publications Board hire a qualified
newspaper printer to administer the
part of the print shop directly
responsible for the daily production
of the newspaper. For some inane,
still unexplained reason the
Publications Board decided to begin
operation of the print shop without
hiring anyone with any experience
in the production of a newspaper.
We warned them that this would
create massive problems.
When production bgan on the
DTH's special orientation issue the
print shop fell apart. The individual
in charge of the paper's production
admitted his inability to handle the
paper and told us it could not come
out on time.
We promptly told him to get out
of our way, cleared the
administrative red tape and began
supervising the production of the
38-page special edition. The paper
came out on time.
However, the print shop was still
without a qualified newspaper
printer. Consequently, DTH
Managing Editor Rod Waldorf
temporarily left his position with
the paper and assumed the duty of
handling the daily production of
the newspaper for the entire month
of September.
We again petitioned Publications
Board to place the production of
the newspaper under the
newspaper's control.
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79 Years of Editorial Freedom
Tom Gooding, Editor
. Rod Waldorf ....... Muugxqg Ed.
Mike Parntil ... .Newt Editor
Rick Gray Associate Ed.
Chris Cobbs. Sports Editor
Frank Parrish ..... Feature Editor
Ken Ripley .... National News Ed.
John Oilman ...... Photo Editor
Terry Check ....... .Nkht Editor
Robert Wilson ..... Business Mgr.
Janet Dernstein ....... .Adv. Mjr.
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Unfortunately, a majority of the
members of the Publications Board
still felt the print shop should be
incorporated as Student Graphics.
We agreed to give the concept a
final chance.
When contract negotiations were
then begun between Graphics and
the DTH a system was devised
where the price charged to the
newspaper was not broken down
into the various services rendered.
Consequently, the Daily Tar
Heel had to absorb the entire cost
for the machinery going into
quality printing. This also included
the salary for the Business Manager
and the individual who used to be
in charge of quality printing.
Unfortunately, despite contractual
agreements Graphics has supplied a
foreman to supervise the printing of
the DTH for only a 30-day period.
We were told that Student
Graphics would save the DTH
money.
It hasn't.
According to the most recent
financial statements the DTH is
paying more this year for printing
than was paid last year.
Through the month of
November Graphics' total revenue
was $32,190.46. Of that amount
$28,409.94 was derived from the
DTH's printing budget.
The DTH has been fiscally
supporting Student Graphics.
Two weeks ago Student
Graphics ran out of supplies
necessary to print the paper.
Members of the editorial board had
to supervise the production of the
paper Monday, March 8. Then on
Tuesday, March 9 the DTH business
manager and editor made the
decision to move the production of
the paper to the Chapel Hill Weekly
because the person in charge of
Graphics could not be found.
Five members of the DTH staff
did the majority of work required
for putting the paper out on time
for Wednesday morning. When the
head of Graphics arrived in town he
spent his time working on a quality
printing project rather than on his
main customer The Daily Tar
Heel.
The paper's production had
lapsed so far behind normal
printing schedules that the Chapel
Hill Weekly threatened to hold the
printing until the next day. The
paper's editorial staff had to
convince the workers at the Weekly
to remain until 2:30 a.m. to begin
printing the paper.
The individuals in charge of
Graphics are not newspapermen,
they are not printers, they are not
connected with the DTH.
Graphics' employees themselves
have admitted that no one cares
enough about the paper to do a
good job.
Consequently, the quality of
work going into the DTH has gone
down while the prices have gone
up.
We have petitioned Publications
Board privately for the last time.
The student body has to know
that their fees are going to support
a wasteful bureaucratic
corporation.
Student Graphics cannot exist
without the DTH, and we are tired
of having to support their
inefficiency.
We demand that Publications
Board: 1) end all quality printing
for the upcoming year; 2) place
quick copy under a Student
Government agency and; 3) turn
the production of the newspaper
over to the people with the concern
and ability to get it printed with
the highest quality and the least
cost The Daily Tar Heel.
OteMa,
Four years is a lot of time to spend in
one place, and when a person stays in one
place for that long there are a lot of
people he remembers.
Chapel Hill has more than its share of
people that stick in the memory, and
mOre than anything else it is these people
who make Chapel Hill what it is.
There are perhaps two people we've
met in Chapel Hill who, more than any
others, represent what we like to think of
as Chapel Hill
One of the two died two years ago,
but whe is still very much a part of
Chapel Hill for those who remember her.
Otelia Conner, to the people who
never really got to know her, must have
seemed like a crackpot, a wierdo, a little
old lady who had a screw loose
somewhere.
But if you ever got to know Otelia you
couldn't help but like her. She was the
self-appointed guardian of manners at
Chapel Hill.
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Letters to the editor
Socialist founder
To the editor:
Since UNC students were given the
dubious privilege of having the "Socialist
Liberation Festival" on our campus,,-
perhaps some historical background is
appropriate concerning the Paris
Commune, since it is quoted as being "a r
central point in the history of socialism."
In his book, Strikers, Communists,
Tramps, and Detectives, Allan Pinkerton ,
spoke of "the pestilential spirit" and the -:
"red hand which struck Paris, that most
beautiful city, when her helplessness ?"
compelled the pity of the whole world."
The supporters of the Commune ,
became increasingly vicious and
bloodthirsty social revolutionaries, going
on an orgy of slaughter and destruction.
The Communards reintroduced the
revolutionary calendar ofs 1793, shut
down churches and monasteries, and
arrested prominent citizens as hostages.
Hostages were executed,, including the
Archbishop of Paris, priest, and other
clergymen. Pro-government prisoners
were lynched.
The Communards burned to the
ground numerous public buildings of
national fame, and were barely dissuaded
from gutting Notre Dame and the Louvre.
The dead were numbered in the tens of
thousands amid all the horrors and
convulsions of civil war.
The French capital presented a
desolate landscape of "gaping roofs,
battered walls, and charred
frontages . . . The theaters were closed
and the shops were shuttered; no one
even cried newspapers."
The events of March-May, 1871 left a
legacy of hatred between the right and
left that has poisoned French politics ever
since.
Such is the legacy of international
socialism.
Rusty Davis
1936 Granville West
The tilly Ttr Heel tcceptx
letters to the editor, provided they
tre typed on a 60-space line tsd
limited to a maximum of 3C3
words. AH letters must be dsed
and the address and phone number
of the writer must be included.
The paper reserves - the riht to
edit all letters for libelees
statements and good taste.
Address letters to Associate
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel, in care
of the Student Union.
spe&ffinniaLini
Walking across campus with her
ever-present red umbrella, she was
capable of delivering a five-minute lecture
(with no forewarning) on the evils of
chewing gum in public, failing to hold the
door open for a lady, dragging your heels
when you walked, propping your feet up
on a desk, not standing when a lady
entered the room, poor posture and
anything else Emily Post ever invented.
But all the time she was lecturing, she
was also smiling. To her manners were
important, and she only wanted everyone
else to think them important to.
If you didn't listen, she threatened to
lower her umbrella, but she never did.
Well, she did it only once, and in that
case the offending Daily Tar Heel
columnist deserved the whack on the
shins he got for failing to take his feet off
the desk when she came in the office.
Time Magazine did an article on her
once, telling the entire nation about the
lady who came to Chapel Hill in 1957 to
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ending to fable
To the editor:
The March 22 Tar Heel contained a
fetching little fable. Seems a little boy
was punished for indecent exposure (he
tried to run around naked), then for
tardiness from classes (he just tried to run
around). Later, constrained beyond
endurance by campus regulations, the
draft, etc., he Drops Out. Meanwhile, a
cherry "seed developed into a sprout
which is nurtured by a farmer who builds
a wall around it to protect it from his
cattle. Eventually, after much arborial
repression, the young cherry tree broke
down the wall and, like the boy, is
FREE!
Very heady stuff, but incomplete.
Allow me to provide the last chapter.
The tree, having broken down the
wall, was trampled into kindling the next
morning by cattle, just as the farmer had
figured. The boy, sick of American
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see her son graduate and fell in love with
the town, the campus and the students.
She adopted them all, and the students
became her "children." She wrote
letters to the editor of the Tar Heel for a
few years, and then she became a regular
columnist, doing columns mostly on
students manners but occassionaSy
speaking out against the war or doing a
series on "University presidents.
It really didn't take long for her to
become a celebrity of sorts. Everyone
that worked on the Tar Heel knew her,
and she was the number one interviewee
for beginning journalism students.
Otelia was one of those people who
liked everyone she ever met, and most of
them liked her too. They couldn't help
liking her.
It's hard to write about some of the
people we've met on campus the people
we count as among our closest friends in
Chapel Hill, but they will all be part of
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repression, hijacked a Piedmont aircraft
and went to Cuba ("Free Territory of
America") where he was immediately put
to work 1 2 hours a day cutting sugar cane
to help keep up with the crushing 1.5
million dollar a day debt owed owed to
Russia so Cuba can afford to let the boy
have Christmas Day off in July. Under
Free Socialism, the boy notes, cherry
trees are uprooted where found because
they interfere with the nice, orderly rows
of cane and little children are not allowed
to run around, naked or otherwise,
because it interferes with their marching
in nice, orderly rows in May Day parades.
Dave Fox
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Proctor column
shows ignorance
To the Editor:
In reference "to Mr. Grover B. Proctor
Jr. and his article. Wednesday about
welfare: I was not at all moved by Junior
Proctor's defense of the right to starve to
WORKINGI DMAIT-I TELL
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what we think about when someone asks
us about Chapel HUl.
And perhaps more than anyone else,
well think of Walter Spearman then.
Well think about walking up the fire
escape at HoweU Hall, climbing in the
window to his office, and hearing him
say, "I thought you were dead cr
something. Where Ve you been?"
And more than anyone else who asks
that question five years from now, Wait
Spearman will mean it.
That is just the way he is: he cares
about the people he knows and hell do
anything he can to help them out of a
jam.
Like the time a friend of ours who also
knows Walt was hitching back to Chapel
Hill from Charlotte. He got thrown in jail
in Thomasville for drunk driving.
One phone call. Walt wasn't home.
Call another friend and have them call
Walt.
Two hours of thumbing later, our
friend is back in Chapel HUl. Spearman
knew someone in Thomasville, and that
person posted bond, and then, by writing
an editorial in the paper he edits, got the
charges, which were trumped up,
dropped.
The' newspaper editor had never seen
our friend who got picked up by the
cops, but he wss a friend of Walt's and
that was all the recommendation he
needed.
Spearman just has that effect on
people. He's not God. He doesn't try to
be. He doesn't lecture in class. He talks to
the students. He jokes with them. He can
make worse puns than anyone.
And he's human.
Maybe that's the whole key to Walt
Spearman. He's human. It's just that he
seems different, and there's no real way
to say what the difference is.
Say the name Spearman, and we'll
think of the short, balding professor
sitting behind his desk with his ankle
propped on his knee, a Tareyton in his
mouth with the ashes about to fall on his
shirt.
And he'll be laughing, or smiling.
He'll stand up when we walk in his
office, and the handshake will just make
you feel like you're no different from
him.
And that is perhaps the biggest
compliment anyone can get to feel like
you're no different from Walt Spearman.
death without government interference.
He apparently has never seen people who
actually were hungry and disabled
because of poor nutrition. I have. I
submit to you that Mr. Proctor does not
know his rear end from a hole in the
ground.
James A. Thorson
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Gumming cartoon
said 'clearly racist'
To the Editor:
Without belaboring a rebuttal to the
clearly racist editorial cartoon in a recent
issue of the DTH, I feel Mr. Curnming
owes a public apology to the Panthers
and all Blacks for his reference to the
"Pink Panther Party." This is not only in
bad taste, and should be publicly
rescinded, but it castes doubt on the
moral position of the DTH which would
allow it to be printed.
Ed Humberger
7-F Towne House
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