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At Thursday night's budget
meeting of Student Legislature,
conservative Joe Beard made his
fourth and probably
final-attempt at having Daily Tar
Heel funds cut off.
In the spring of 1969, he
proposed in Student Legislature to
have the DTH left out of the
budget, getting only his own vote
after an impassioned plea to cut the
DTH s water off.
In the spring of 1970, he made
the same proposal and tripled his
strength by persuading three other
legislators to go along with him.
Of course Joe went all out last
snrirss when the Committee for a
Free Press, of which he was one of
the ring leaders, worked to have
wards- off the weellc
funding cut off by means of a
student body referendum. They
lost by more than 3700 votes
though, 48 17 to 1078.
' Then Thursday night he almost
made it. After he laughingly made
his speech, he managed to pull 13
others with him, and due to the
fact that many liberal legislators
had already gone home, almost
pulled it off.
This year will be Joe's last in
Chapel Hill. He is a third year law
student and will be graduating.-
We'll honestly hate to see him
go. Every group needs a victory,
once in a while. And Joe Beard has
provided the DTH with four
victories in the past three years.
A
Perry Mason of the Week to
Legislator Joe Beard who led the
campaign to cut legal counsel for
the student body, Joe, a law
student himself, knows those guys
aren't worth the prices they charge.
The "Keep The Baby, Faith"
Award to the North Carolina
General Assembly for killing an
abortion bill that would have left
abortion decisions to mother and
doctor.
The Just-Because-There's-Sno
w-on-the-Roof -D oesn't
Mean-There's-Not-a-Fire
in-the-Furnace Award to 68
year-old Strom Thurmond, senator
from South Carolina, who became
the father of a baby girl this week.
The Stand By Your Man
Award to Strom's 22 year-old
wife.
The Party of the Week to Joe
Stallings' inauguration ceremony,
announced in the Daily Tar Heel
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79 Years of Editorial Freedom
Harry Bryan, Editor
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Lou Bonds News Editor
$ Rod Waldorf ....... Associate Ed:
Glenn Brank ... Associate Ed.
1 Mark Whicker Sports Editor
Ken Ripley .'. Feature Editor
John Geilman Photo Editor
Tern Cheek Night Editor
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Bob Wilson .. Business Mgr.
Janet Bernstein Adv. Mgr.
with the notation, 'The entire
student body is invited to attend."
Unfortunately, only 50 showed up.
Maybe Joe should have said he was
offering milk and cookies.
Unimaginative Thinking
Award to the Hub clothing store
for naming its mod shop "103
East." We think they should call it
'The Hubcap."
The Squeezing Out the Cash
Award to the APO, which
managed to auction off a baby boa
constrictor for $22.
The Strike Out Sweet Suds
Award to the Budweiser Brewery,
which is re-running its
super-patriotic "Swing Out Sweet'
Land" t.v. special.
The "What Did You Say?"
Award to the UNC Faculty
Council,' which discussed the
problem of noise pollution in
Chapel Hill Friday afternoon and
was interrupted' by a blaring rock
band playing in the Pit.
The Women Drivers of the
Week to the two 1 0 year-old girls
who were allowed to enter the
Fayetteville Soap Box Derby after
threatening sponsor General Motors
with a lawsuit.
The Stork With a Zip Code
Tatoo Award to the company
offering pregnancy tests through
'the male-er, that's mail-in the
DTH classifieds.
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The Great Enlightenment of the
Week to the following
conversation overheard during
Student Legislature budget debate:
Rookie legislator Lanny Shuff:
44 . . . this is known as the
conspiracy of Legal Minds
Doctrine."
Veteran politico Charlie Dean:
"Horse . Law students sit down."
Shuff: "This is an insult. Do we
usually conduct business in this
Dean:
meeting?"
'Is this your first
Spring is the time for holidays and festivals, beautiful
weather and the growing lushness of nature re rived. As
the grass turns green, the flowers begin to bloom, and
the trees sprout leaves, it seems only natural that we
reaffirm the sheer joy of living.
Classes were all we had during the dreary winter, bat
now they're, prisons. It's much more fun to be outside,
lying in the sun or taking a walk with your girlfriend.
Spring is the appropriate season for Easter. It's easy
to think a lot about death when you walk across the
barren and dismal campus in the winter twilight. But
when nature begins to stir itself, I know I get a sense of
"rebirth," of new life. Somehow New Year's Day
doesn't belong in January, in the middle of winter. It
belongs in spring, with spring's fresh beginning
New life. Life arising out of death. These are the very
themes of Christianity's most significant holiday. If the
ordinary passing of seasons involves a miracle of
creation, no less miraculous and wonderful is the miracle
of the man who died only to conquer death.
The essential cornerstone of the New Testament is
the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The central
thrust of the four Gospel accounts is that 2,000 years
ago a man made spectacular claims about his relationship
to God; was prosecuted by the Jewish authorities,
crucified by the Romans, buried in . a sepulchre, and
proved bis claims by returning to life.
The Gospel writers make it plain they are dealing not
with any symbolism or allegory, but with history. The
idea that Jesus is a "Savior," a "ransom for many, the
essential link between God and man, is nonsense if he
didn't do what the Bible says he did. Biblical
Christianity would then be reduced to speculative
theology, its truth depending on the persuasiveness of its
advocates.
But the early Christians were convinced that Jesus
had risen from the grave and conquered death. The truth
of the resurrection was the bedrock of their preaching.
When Jesus was on trial, one of his closest disciples,
Peter, denied three times he even knew Jesus. Yet only a
short time after the resurrection, Peter began the spread
of Christianity, saying, This Jesus God raised up, and of
that we all are witnesses Let all the house of Israel
therefore know assuredly that God has made him both
Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."
Paul, who had been one of Christianity's most ardent
opponents, later wrote the Corinthians, 'Tor I delivered
to you as of first importance what I also received, that
Christ died" for our sins in accordance with the
scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the
third day in accordance with the scriptures."
Paul spread the Gospel of the resirrre ce d. Savior who
offers man new life with God throughout the Roman
world. Many believed the fantastic account and became
Christians. Others echoed the same skepticism we hear
today. "Now when they heard of the resurrection of the
dead, some mocked," the Bible records.
As Christians throughout the world celebrate Easter
tomorrow, remembering the resurrection, we still find
the same situation that existed 2,000 years ago. The
resurrection has happened, and the "good news" of
Jesus Christ is si III being preached by those who are
convinced that his life and claims are for real. Men are
still asked to consider the claims of Jesus Christ, his life
and resurrection. And we still have the choice to mock
or believe the testimony of Christians.
But one thing that makes the resurrection so
wonderful for the Christians who wEl celebrate it is that
through the resurrection of Jesus all men can have new
life in a relationship with God. ""Therefore, if any one is
in Christ, he is a new creation," Paul wrote. "The old has
passed away, behold, the new has come." If this sounds
vague, many of those who have become Christians will
testify that God is real and active in their lives. For
them, the new has come.
All of us who glory in life are able to celebrate the
arrival of spring. The Christians who celebrate Easter
tomorrow will be celebrating the most wonderful life of
all.
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(Editor's Note: The following article
was written for a creative writing class
assignment. We feel the essay has
something to say to the students on
campus and present it here for our
readers. )
One of the troubles with the
University of North Carolina is the large,
number of bigoted people who get in.
Every time I turn around I run into
another bigot. They're worse than the
Chinks (and almost as bad as the Niggers).
It has reached the point where anyone
'with a fairly good scholastic record can
get into the University, and I should
know there are two Jews in my suite.
They'll take anyone, and that includes
bigots.
A few weeks ago a stranger was
explaining to me the plight of the Negro
in America. The next day I saw him in a
mob, stoning an American Indian. This
is a popular form of bigotry, sympathy to
one ethnic group, while not giving the
time of day to another. As far as I am
x concerend, if you hate the Wops, you're
no better for loving the Spies.
Don't kid yourself about
bigotry there's plenty of it here. I,
personally, have a hangup about touching
the skin of a black person (afraid the
color will rub off, I guess), but I am not a
bigoL I watched about eight or ten guys
in a circle, shoving some poor Chink
around. What did it accomplish? Was it
fun? Sure, I got a. few laughs out of it,
but later on I felt pretty bad. It's so
senseless-I mean, how would you like to
be a Chink?
Did you ever think of that?
Probably not. -
The solution to this problem of
bigotry on campus is twofold. First we
must remove the bigots who already have
managed to gain entry to the University.
One suggestion along these lines has
been a mass crucifixion. A milder answer
would be to send the bigots to the Middle
East and forget about them.
Secondly, we must prevent bigotry
from entering our lifestyles in the future.
Bigotry may be prevented either by
keeping out bigots (which certainly
would be a difficult task, considering the
bigot's . cleverness in concealing his
bigotry), or by keeping out the Indians,
blacks, Spies, etc.
The latter definitely is within the
realm of possibilities, since anyone (even
a Polack) can tell a Spic or a Chink when
he sees one.
In either case, we must act now,
before the problem gets out of hand.
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Galley verdict
To the Editor:
The conviction of Lt. Calley for
murdering Vietnamese citizens has
created a great deal of controversy and
has brought forth an emotional reaction
throughout the nation in protest.
Regardless of public sympathy for Lt.
Calley as an individual and for the
situation in which he was placed, those
who criticize the conviction should be
aware of several things. 1 . The killing of
non-combatant civilians is a crime, even
during war time. 2. Soldiers have a duty
to refuse to obey illegal orders. 3. The
fact that Lt. Calley may have been
ordered to kill civilians is not a defense tc
the crime of which he was convicted, i
One aspect of the controversy that has
received little comment thus far has been
the action of President Nixon. When h
became apparent that public sympathy
was running with Calley, Nixon, the
political opportunist, immediately seized
this chance to move up a few notches on
the popularity polls. Since Nixon,
arguably, is ultimately responsible for Lt:
Calley's crime, at least in the sense that
he failed to exercise presidential initiative
to end the war, his declaration that he
will review the conviction is not only
judicially premature, but also politically
hypocritical.
When Nixon ordered Calley freed from
prison and stated that he would
personally review the case, was he truly
motivated by humanitarian
considerations? Of course not. Would
Nixon have taken the same action if
public opinion had been against Calley?
Again, I doubt it; Nixon is too clever to
do something that clumsy.
The grounds on which Calley might
base an appeal is an error in his trial. If it
is ultimately found . that Calley did
intentionally murder Vietnamese citizens,
a political pardon by President Nixon
would make a mockery of military justice
and condone the type of behavior that is
so fundamentally contrary to the
principles which we are supposedly
defending in Southeast Asia.
Tim Merritt
130 Carr Street
Chapel Hill
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The funding of what have been termed
"cultural" groups-including the band, choir and
debate team-was certain to produce a floor fight
during the current SL budget sessions.
Opponents of funding these groups maintain
the administration, not Student Government,
should finance cultural activities.
Perhaps there is some validity to this argument.
Perhaps the administration indeed has an interest
in such student activities. But if so. the student
body has a still greater interest in them.'
hach of -the groups in question is a honafide
student organization. They are composed of
students and run primarily lor the benefit of
students, in some cases, as with the undergraduate
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assistants in the Marching Band, students actually
determine a large part of the organization's
activity.
lt seems only logical that these organizations
serving the student body be funded, by fees
collected from that body.
Where else might we spend the money, saved by
denying funds to cultural activities? The Black
Student Movement, already in the budget for 6S00
dollars, could siphon off some of the money.
Another possibility is ECOS. Still another is that
SL follow the suggestion made last semester by
Tom my Bello and set up a special fund for dialing
out money to various groups upon the president's
discretion.
None of these options justifies removing the
money from the band, choir or debate team.
The BSM already has its share of funds; almost
S7CG0. That should be sufficient.
As for ECOS, much of its work has been, and
will continue to be, done off-campus. As such,
ECOS has benefited the student body only
indirectly. The rationale for furnishing such an
organization with student-collected fees is very
tenuous indeed. The chief criterion for deciding
whether or not to fund a group should be that
group s contributions to the students who pay the
feO- In that respect. ECOS just doesn't "come up
to snuff.
There is nothing wrong with restructuring the
FIT
environment. It is a worthy project, and ECOS can
hit me for a (modest) contribution anytime they
want. But I object -as all student should object -to
using money taxed from me to financing Student
Legislature's favorite charities.
And as for the third possibility well, that gets
the axe, too. The system's dangers of degenerating
onto a presidential slush fund are too great for it
to be tried.
Meanwhile, the Marching Band makes do with
moth-eaten uniforms and uses Army rejects for
instruments. (That's right; many of the
instruments are war surplus.) The debate team
struggles to maintain a nationally-ranked program
with a shoestring budget.
To remove money from the band's budget in
order to sponsor an environmental charity might
earn the plaudits of Ed Muskie, but it wouldn't do
the students any good. A move to cut the debate
team to add to BSM might similarly win
grandstand sympathy but would serve but to slash
one without really helping the other.
If SL cuts funds for campus cultural
organizations, it will have demonstrated that it is
hopelessly out of touch with the students on this
campus. Support of these groups, on the other
hand, will be a step toward renewed credibility
and genuine responsiveness. I trust the wiser heads
in SL will argue for the Litter course.