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A meeting was held Wednesday
between Chancellor J. Carlyle
' Sitterson: Dean of Student Affairs
CO. Cathey; Walter Baggett,
president of the Graduate and
Professional Student Federation;
and Claiborne Jones, assistant to
the Chancellor.
The purpose of that meeting was
to allow representatives of the
GPSF and Student Government to
state their views on the possibility
of the graduate students' split with
Student Government. i
However, absent from that
meeting was Student Body
President Joe Stallings.
According to the Chancellor, the
reason for Stallings' absence was
that Stallings insisted on the
presence of Attorney John R.
Brooks in representing Student
Government, which Sitterson
would not allow.
"It wouldn't have been fair to
the other people involved for him
to have a third party counsel
present, when we have not had a
chance to have a lawyer present,"
Sitterson said Thursday.
However, from Sitterson's
statements Thursday and from
statements made in the past, it has
not been the graduate students who
have been cheated but the
undergraduates.
Both Sitterson and Baggett had
attended previous meetings
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Weasy of the seemingly interminable
Peloponnesian War, two Athenians,
Euelpides (i.e. Hopeful) and Pisthetairos
(i.e. Plausible)abandon their city in search
of a new state free from the hardships
and struggle of war, the civil corruption
and endless lawsuits of the dying
democracy. The two decide to live among
the birds the undying, the ageless ones,
scholars of eternity and among them
begin , to build a Utopian realm,
Cloudcuckooland.
The irony of Aristophane's comedy
"The Birds" is that the two Athenians
cannot escape their own character as
Athenians. The restless energy and
enterprise which leads them to organize
the birds and to build Cloudcuckooland is
the very restless energy and enterprise,
the polupragmosune, which led Athens
upon her imperialistic course. Soon the
bird empire is at war with the Gods, the
realm is beset ; by inspectors, legislators,
hack poets and prophets. The comedy
ends when a truce is concluded between
the Athenian-bird leaders and 1 the
representatives of the gods, a truce sealed
by a dinner of roast fowl.
On May 7,. 1970 Tommy Bello :
inaugurated plans for just such an ironic
Cloudcuckooland. Mr. , BeUo addressed
the student body on the meaning of the
May strike: "We strike to establish a
DTP
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concerning the issue, but Stallings
hadn't. Becuase of this Stallings
asked Brooks who had worked on
the Student Government side of the
issue during Tommy Bello's
administration, to be present
Wednesday "to' provide a
continuity from the last Student
Government administration."
The Chancellor, however,
wouldn't accept this reasoning.
One also wonders why the
Chancellor felt it necessary to get
his own legal counsel if Brooks was
to be present.
If he just wanted fairness at the
meeting, it would seem that he
would have insisted on the graduate
students' having the chance to hire
an attorney rather than getting one
himself.
It is becoming more and more
evident that the Chancellor has
already made up his mind on the
issue and is favoring the graduate
students in the meetings.
If he has made his decision, then
the meetings are superfluous in the
first place. And if he hasn't no
matter which side is right he
should be fair in his dealing with
graduates and undergraduates.
Mike Parnell
Bits and
Dean of Women Katherine Carmichael
sent a memorandum this week to
directors of women's residence halls and
sororities detailing how the change to
Eastern Daylight Time Sunday would be
handled.
The residences will close at 2 a.m.
Eastern Standard Time rather than 2 a.m.
Daylight Time so the women on campus
won't get to stay out an extra hour.
Campus clocks will be changed after
closing hours.
Miss Carmichael ended her
memorandum with a gentle reminder to
"turn back the clocks as suggested."
Unfortunately, the clocks have to be
turned up an hour to accommodate the
change in time.
Miss Carmichael is notorious for
looking back in time.
HERO OF THE WEEK: For the
second week in a row actor George Scott
wins this award. This week Scott was
nominated for an Emmy as television's
top actor for the 1970-71 season. Scott
has refused to comment to newmen but
friends say he will refuse td accept the
Emmy, just as he refused to accept the
Oscar as the top movie actor. Attaboy,
George.
Russian bachelors are "malicious men
in love with themselves," according to an
AP wire report Wednesday. The Russian
university that will espouse what this
society so desperately needs: mutual love,
respect, and understanding We have
slept through the nightmares for too long;
today we begin to live the dream.
Together and nonviolently ,
compassionately and intelligently, - we
strike to begin anew." Earlier in the
speech, Mr. BeUo betrayed the irony of
his position, revealed his own sense of
"mutual love, respect, and
understanding" by announcing "the
politicians that run this country are cold,
hard, calculating men, men untouched by
reason." This Cloucuckooland, the "free
university,", was posited upon the very
distrust, disrespect, and misunderstanding
that its proponents sought to escape.
In July the Free University was
succedded by Guil Waddell's Independent
Student Government. This misbegotten
mooncalf (Mognuolo's term) was founded
upon the treasurer's belief that 'The
student body is no longer satisfied to base
its self-governing on a delegation of
authority from the Chancellor of the
University. Instead, it is beginning to
assert its basic rights to self-government
and its willingness to assume
concommitant responsibilties."
Mr. Waddell . and his supporters
expressed this ideal of self-government
and responsible conduct by ramming
The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
-T.S. Eliot
May 1 will mark the beginning of a
demonstration much different in scope,
intent and tactics from the demonstration
to begin April 24.
The demonstration beginning April 24
is to be of voices and numbers and is in
support of Senator t Vance Hartke's
Resolution 66 for immediate withdrawal
from Indochina. .
The demonstration beginning May 1 is
to be a demonstration of power. During
the week following May Day, activists
intend to demonstrate "the people" have
the power to force implementation of the
"People" Peace Treaty" (PPT).
Organizers have, planned massive
disruptions of federal communications,
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Arrington misinterpreted vote
To the Editor:
Bob Arrington's column published last
week contains numerous errors, and
makes an unfair accusation against Joe
Stallings.
While it might be true that threats
were made to call legislators into account
for their absences, if Mr. Arrington had
checked the rollbook, he would have
found that while, three conservative
members had exceeded their absences, six
liberal members were in a similar
situation. All members of SL knew this,
and it was decided to ignore all absences
for the last three meetings.
If Mr. Stallings had threatened the
conservatives, they would have called his
bluff since it would gain them three
votes. In any case, it is not the president
of the student body who resigns
members; it is the Clerk of the Legislature
pieces:
men are responsible for the low birth rate
in the country charged one of the leading
Soviet journals, "Literaturnaya Gazeta."
"Increasing the birth rate is one of the
most urgent problems facing our
country," said the journal.
"The unmarried man is a selfish
egotist," the article continues, as it
encourages the government to set up
bureaus to help young people - get
together:
Ah, the male ego might be the answer
to solving the population problem.
The UNC debaters, Joe Loveland and
Joe McGuire, deserve congratulations
after doing so well in the National
Invitational Debate Tournament held in
Macalester College in Minnesota last
week. .
The pair finished eighth as a team, and
UNC was the only school in the
tournament to place its two debaters in
the top ten. Loveland was accorded first
place and McGuire eighth place.
Well done, guys.
The Carolina Union must be
recognized this week for being on top of
everything that's happening on
campus particularly within their own
organization. . , ,
The Union advertised "A Losers Film
Festival" in this week's issues of The
Daily Tar Heel. . The festival included
through Student Legislature the necessary
appropriations and budget cuts while its
constituency was absent (rather similar to
the accusation often made that trustees
pass unpopular measures in the summer
behind our backs), by forcibly
"resigning" ten legislators, and by
declaring ' subsequent enquiries by the
student Supreme Court invalid. Here
again would-be reformers attempted to
realize their ideals by resorting to the
very injustices which their seperatist
. efforts were to avoid.
Couldcuckooland was explained if not
justified by the situation of wax and
corruption which induced Euelpides and
Pisthetairos to seek a newer world.
Modern escapists, from the conservative
Agrarian Poets of the American South to
- the . Marcusean radicals of more recent
years, have seen in the American
industrialized state a bondage to
materialism and . massness from which
man must free himself if he is to retain
his humanity.
So there have arisen various separatist
movements all of them reactionary in
tendency aimed at building new Edens,
new Cloudcuckoolands which will be free
from the injustices and evils of American
society. The Free University, a national
phenomenon, is just such an escapist,
reactionary movement. It manifests its
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traffic and utilities. Collaborative action
in the Washington ghettos has been
planned by black militants.
Activist literature declares, "if the
government does not stop the war, we
will stop the government."
To understate the obvious: If the
government faces serious danger of being
"stopped" or thrown in to chaos, it will
react vioiently-people will be killed in
Washington.
Undoubtedly, the government would
rather confine its killing to Indochina.
Massacres in the United States, such as at
Kent State, are not conducive to effective
government.
If endangered, however, the
government will act immediately and
indiscriminately. To enable the
government to do so is the purpose of
marshal law. This is the purpose of
federal provisions concerning mass arrests
and concentration camps. This is the
purpose of armed troops at past
demonstrations in Washington, Chicago,
and the body's Rules Committee (of
which I am chairman). I don't believe the
threat was ever made.
The vote of 28 to three (with eight
abstentions) on the issue of reconsidering
the student lawyer should be examined
again. The vote the previous evening had
been 15 to 14, and the conservatives were
clearly outnumbered on the second vote.
In any case, the issue was to reconsider
the vote, that is, to bring it up for
discussion again. Mr. Arrington ignored
the third and final vote, in which the
conservatives voted their consciences and
were beaten.
Mr. Arrington has called Joe Stallings
"high-handed." Yet he has not presented
a shred of evidence that will stand up to
support his charge. He should retract it.
Gerry Cohen
Bl Univ. Garden Apts.
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several films which received nominations
for best picture from the Motion Picture
Academy but were not quite good
enough to win the Oscar i.e. the losers.
One of the films advertised by the
Union was 'Tom Jones," which was
nominated in for the Best Picture
Award. One small mistake by the Union.
'Tom Jones" won the Oscar. A real loser.
PERSONAL NOTE: Congratulations
to Karen Jurgensen Thompson, former
DTH staff writer, who was chosen this
week as a member of the Order of the
Valkyries, the top women's honorary on
campus. Karen's father sent her a cake as
a reward, which she was kind enough to
share with me. I would like to give her
my thanks.
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desire to return to simple, "spontaneous"
human conduct by defending atavistic
behavior patterns of dress, mores, and
speech. By renouncing modern
experience, it dooms itself to soon repeat
the very mistakes which have led our
culture to commit those mistakes at this
point.
Independent Student Government, a
more identifiably local concept, is
likewise a reversion rather than an
advancement. Mr. Waddell's concept
differs from Mr. Bello's because Guil does
not seem to have been aware that modern
purposelessness, our spiritual malaise, is
supposedly a reaction to materialism. ISG
is founded upon economic
enterprises the Print Shop, refrigerator
sales, etc. and upon the premise that
dorm-room carpets, easy chairs, and
refrigerators are the real values which the
modern student pursues. These
ideals materialism and a bureaucracy
efficient in the satisfaction of material
wants-in the context of the University,
like those more idealistic values of the
Free University in the context of the
American nation, are to be realized by
separating the new institution (ISG, or
the Free University) from the presently
existing structure (the University, or the
nation).
While Joe Stallings flies off the wheel
Kent . . . Their weapons are more than
symbolic.
We may hope that no violence or
killings will take place in Washington. The
planned civil disobedience may be too
ineffectual to seriously disrupt the
capital, in which case there need he no
government retaliation.
But even under normal conditions
large cities are very turbulent, very
complex and hence very vulnerable. Only
a few hundred concerted disruptors could
cause considerable turmoil. This situation
would be intolerable to the government.
Their troops would move against the
activists. While most activists are
-committed to non-violence in
Washington, some undoubtedly would
resist violently. At this point, a barrage of
stones, a firebomb, a sharpshooter, a
single nervous lieutenant could trigger
mass slaughter.
Unlike the April 24th demonstration,
the May Day civil disobedience is unwise
and counterproductive to the peace
movement. Although violence in
Washington might "bring the war home"
it would not .bring the peace which this
country so desperately needs.
The "People's Peace Treaty" is itself
counterproductive. The PPT is a
restatement of the Vietcong "Eight Point
Platform." By endorsing the PPT, an
American is taking sides in the
Vietnamese civil war.
It is one thing for an American to
protest U.S. support of the tyrannical
Thieu-Ky-Khiem regime. Ij is quite
another for an American to sign a treaty
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tangent striving yaliantly (?) to resuscitate
the stillborn progeny of Mr. Waddell's
misunderstandings, shall we tiot at least
consider the possibility that separatism is
not the means by which to realize the
values we are seeking; like Aristophanes,
we might recognize that our national
distress is not more attributable to an
elite military industrial complex (Mr.
Bello's "cold, hard, calculating men, men
untouched by reason") than it is true thai
'unrest within our Universities is the
product of a deranged radical few. Just as
the restless Athenian temperament,
whose deathless achievements men still
admire, also led the city into imperialism,
just as that temperament engraved itself
upon Euelpides and Pisthetairos who
though they were opposing their
country's aggressiveness, so too there is
something in the American temperament,
something in which we all participate and
in whose manifestations we are all
implicated, that has led us to this present
point in our history. And this is true not
merely for the nation itself but for all
those institutions our universities, our
press, our business life which embody
the spirit of American culture. In our
history, that temperament has led us to
perform great deeds and that same
temperament has led us to Vietnam and
whose implementation would prohibit
Thieu. Ky and Khierrt from running for
election in Vietnam. The relative merits
of Vietnamese politicians must be
decided by Vietnamese.
The FPT organizers point to the
Vietnamese co-simmers of the Treaty as
representative of the will of the
Vietnamese people. Yet the question.
"Who represents the Vietnamese people"
has been the central issue of a civil war
which has dragged on for years and has
destroyed, by some estimates, over 3
million lives. If Americans had not tried
to decide this issue in times past, a good
part of this million would be alive today.
Despite these objections, many on this
campus support the PPT and a good
number will participate in the Washington
civil disobedience. Some feel the FPT and
Washington disruptions, whatever their
flaws and dangers, are bound to be more
effective than more of the same type of
marches, rallies and demonstrations
which the peace movement has used for
years.
Indeed, I admit that massive
disruptions and killings in the U.S. may
"bring the troops home." Such events in
Germany as well as failure of discipline in
the German armed forces (as is occurring
in our military, also) brought Germany
more quickly out of World War I. But the
civil turmoil in that country hardly
brought about peace.
Before making the decision to support
the PPT with civil disobedience in
Washington, I urge the reader to consider
the matter very' seriously.
Lives are on the line.
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internal dissension. We cannot escape it
by simply renouncing certain of its
effects, condemning certain of its
manifestations, or by separating ouselfes
from it physically. It goes with us in
whatever direction we channel the
energies in which it will manifest itself
again.
It is not change we need, but growth, a
more profound understanding of the
values to which we must now proceed.
That growth cannot take place unless our
national institutions become and are
allowed to become thoughtful analysts
and respected advisors in our culture's
life. Most especially, the universities, in
which should reside that humanistic
perspective necessary to analyze and
understand our difficulty, must regain
their self-respect and the respectful
attention fo the people.
How can that be accomplished here in
North Carolina if Mr. Stallings and The
Daily Tar Heel keep tearing the
University down and apart, pursuing thier
outdated, misconceived ideals of
materialsim and separatism, their
Independent Daily Tar Heel and
Independent Student Government, their
refregerators and wall-to-wail cheap
carpets, their pettifogging lawyer and
"student" (?) Co-op?