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Opinions of The Daily Tax Heel are expressed on its editorial page.
All unsigned editorials are the opinions of the editor. Letters and
columns represent only the opinions of the individual contributors.
Harry Bryan, Editor
Saturday, April 24, 1971
Awards
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The No Babbling Brooks
Award-to Chancellor Sitterson for
refusing to meet with Student
Government Attorney John Brooks
in a conference with SG leaders.
The We Can't Get Nun
Award-to Pope Paul VI,' who
riday made a plea for more young
persons to serve as priests and nuns.
fj The "From the Mouths of
Babes" Award-to the UNC
psychology major advertising for
young children to make tapes on
the topic, "Speech Development."
t The Spaced-Out Award-to the
iVright Brothers Museum, which has
jiad to turn down the lunar module
Kitty Hawk because they don't
ave enough space for it.
The Timeless Administrator
i ward-to Dean of Women Kitty
fearmichael, who ordered the clocks
h women's dorms set back Sunday
fiorning. Unfortunately, Eastern
tandard Time dictates they be set
forward.
The Loser's Loser Award to the
American Legion post sponsoring a
flance on behalf of Lt. William
galley. The Legionaires lost $600.
The Sheepish Grin Award to an
embarassed Journalism School
Dean John B. Adams, who invited
all his journalism classes to attend
the Order of the Golden Fleece
ceremony, not knowing it was part
of the ruse to get him there for the
hbrior.
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The Messy Phrasing Award to
the N.C. Assembly for the second
week in a row. This week UPI
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Janet Bernstein Adv. Mgr.
Ken Ripley
"You do pretty good with love," one
hoy said this week, "But do you have to
throw Christianity into it? I'd just as soon
worship love -which is all life is about,
anyway.',
He echoed the sentiment of too many
people I've talked to in the last few
years- the idea that love is somehow
separate from God and is the essential
bedrock of life in its own right,
g No doubt, many people try to worship
he idea of love. It's easy to see how we
kan. Love is one of the strongest, deepest,
jfiiost enduring of human emotions. We
need love to feel loved and to be loving,
i-ife becomes sterile without the richness
l5d warmth of loving relationships. Life
becomes hateful without the compassion,
the concern, the caring that love reflects.
Love is perhaps the greatest gift of being
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reported they ''killed" a bill to
abolish the death penalty. Last
week, they "axed" a bill to
liberalize abortion.
The "Burn Your Drawbridge
Behind You" Award-to the
legendary Ghimghoul Castle, which
nearly burned down Monday.
The Almost Half-Dead
Award-to UPI for reporting "38
killed on the highways
Wednesday."
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The Hold on to Your Harpoon
Award-to the U.S. Government,
for outlawing whale hunting.
The Puny Pepper Award to the
UNC researcher who reported this
week that hot red peppers, used
daily as a food seasoning
throughout the world, may cause
malnutrition and gross retardation.
The Pinocchio Politico
Award to student legislator
Charles Gilliam, who during a
legislature session was overheard
asking. conservative boss Joe Beard,
"How do I vote?" If you want to
see him do his thing, pull his string.
The Much Adoo Award six feet
and ten inches of it, to be exact.
Basketball coach Dean Smith has
recruited Robert McAdoo, a junior
college eager star.
Headline of the Week Award-to
the Charlotte Observer for the
following, headline: "Bill JBooe Boos
School Board; Board Boos Booe
Back."
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it is a gift that is eagerly
But love is a gift of life, not
life
itself-be it romantic love or deep
self-sacrificing love.:And thus the center
point of religion-and Christianity -is not
the gift of love, but the origin of that gift.
We can dismiss religions that do not
involve love, because they fail to make
sense in a world that does have love. But
if we really are enthralled with the
concept of love, then we've got to
consider the different religions and their
interpretations of love's origin.
There is a certain temptation to turn
around John's famous comment that
"God is love" lo read "Love is God." But
two things happen when we try.
First, we find ourselves searching after
a meaningless concept. What value does
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There's nothing more enjoyable on a
nice spring day in Chapel HiH than to sit
somewhere in the grass under a tree and
watch the people go by.
You can see people of all shapes and
sizes. You sit and watch and eventually
come to the realization that people are
very -different very odd very
weird.
And here are a few of the most
unusual I have ever heard of
The HEAVIEST human of all times
tipped the scales at 1,069 pounds in
February of 1958. His name was Robert
Earl Hughes, six and one-half inches tall,
from Monticello, 111. He weighed IIY4
pounds as a baby. Hughes was buried in a
Letters to the
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To the Editor:
Several denizens of Craige dormitory
were talking about a painful experience
which many graduate students here at the
University of North Carolina must
endure, paying the typists and
xerography fees required to provide the
University with the required number of
copies of Master's, theses and Doctoral
dissertations of the quality the University
demands. ' ' .,
A cheap job on a short thesis can
easily exceed $50.00 and what History
graduate students pay is astronomical, y 1
Needless to say, the students' budget is
ruined, and ruined towards the end of theV
year when budgets become thin for anyr
student, buch a burden is obnoxious and
should be taken oil the student s back.' p- i
Therefore we propose that the
University step in by paying the costs of
typing and xeroxing theses and
dissertations. The University can
certificate tvnists who now do freelance
thesis work to snare the TTnivpritv )
secretarial staff the added burden, and-.
refer graduate students to such certified
typists. The student could use any
available University owned xerpxf
machine and charge his thesis related'
copying to the University. The typist and
student would simply fill out a form
listing the number of pages typed or
copied and University secretaries could
easily '-check the yajijify p $uch forms
before checking the theses and
dissertations.
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love as a principle have in itself? Can love
by itself relate to other people, have
compassion, make us whole? Love, faith,
hate, and other abstract concepts mean
nothing in themselves they are
only
expressions, of the person. What
is
is
significant about love is that there
someone. who loves.- ' -
A good example is the love of a girl for
a boy. What is more important to' him? Is
it that love is so great for the boy. or that
a particular girl is loving him?
It seems to me that even those who
hold love as their own "god." are actually
worshipping it in the way people around
them-including themse!ves-put love into
action.
To a Christian, this idea of love being
an expression from one person to another
is important, just as significant as the
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which weighed
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lowered by crane.
The record CHILDB EARER was the
wife of Fyodor Vassilet (1816-1872) of
Russia. She was the mother of 69
children. She gave birth to 16 pairs of
twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets
of quadruplets..
The LONGEST FINGERNAILS
belonged to a Chinese priest in. Shanghai
in 1910. It took him over 27 years to
achieve nails up to 2234 inches in lensth.
The LARGEST normal newborn
BABY was a boy weighing 24 pounds 4
ounces born in June of 1961 in Ceyhan,
Southern Italy.
editor
Ultimately, the student must pay for
this kind of service, and the costs of
thesis preparation can be included in the
fees which each department charges. In
effect the student would pay for his
thesis preparation in installments, a
method far less painful than the situation
,r which now exists.
. - Gordon C. Miller (Environmental
Sciences and Engineering)
C Warren Galke (Epidemiology)
Petya Perkins (English)
Robert Thyken (Political Science)
CM. Milliren (Chemistry)
Mar ha J. Payne (Classics)
l4 v Kathleen F. Keef e (Germanic
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C A few comments on Mr. Leaven's
j latest hatchet-job, that is, his omniscient
review of "Gimme Shelter."
It is unfortunate that Mr. Leaven was
so bored with the few shots of "the
-protracted negotiations for a concert
site." If he had remained awake, he might
have - recalled the lengthy Altamont
expose which he might have read about a
year ago hi, of all places, the Rolling
Stone. If he had done so, he would have
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type of expression love is. The Christian
believes that love is that type of positive
concern and caring which by itself is a
concept, and things don't love. Only
people love, and that people love and are
loved is important.
But secondly, when we substitute
"Love is God" for "God is love" we miss
the point of the entire Bible-that God is
the source of love and to cut ourselves off
from' God is to shut ourselves off from
that source. This insight is not unique to
Christianity. Other religions say the same.
It isn't too hard to see what happens
when love is shut off. Selfishness, avarice,
greed, and cruelty abound. Sometimes it
seems that what is so amazing is not that
men can be so unloving to others, but
that men can b; -as loving as they are.
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The MOST TATTOOS worn by Vivian
Sailor Joe" Simmons, a Canadian tattoo
artist. He has 4,831 tattoos on his body.
The LONGEST PREGNANCY was
389 days for a, 25 year old woman in
Woking Maternity Hospital, Surrey,
England.
The MOST ALCOHOLIC person was a
hard drinker named Vanhorn born in
London, England. He avenged four
bottles of ruby port per day for 23 years
prior to his death at 61. It is believed that
during his lifetime he emptied more than
35,688 bottles.
The record for SLEEPLESSNESS is
held by an elderly woman in Cape Town,
South Africa. She voluntarily went
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also recalled that the Angels were hired in
an indirect through the good offices of
the Grateful Dead, and not directly by
the Stones: In fact, Mr. Leaven would
have recalled that the Stones themselves
were not much of, a factor in the
negotiations which made Altamont the
bummer it was. All the arrangements
were left to middle-men. And yet Mr.
Leaven criticizes "Gimme Shelter" for
not drawing a direct connection between
the Stones and these negotiations. How
could it, when the Stones were actually
only peripherally involved?
This is not to say-that the Stones are
any less culpable. If anything, their
disinterest and non-involvement in the
negotiations renders them more so.
"Gimme Shelter" is a disturbing film
precisely because it does not connect the
Stones with the violence at Altamont.
The Stones are shown breezing their way
from gig to gig across the country,
without a care in the world, oblivious to
the mundane negotiations preceding each
concert. At the end, we are left with
Altamont. One knows all along that the
Stones could have vetoed the hiring of
the Angels, if they had cared enough to
soil their hands and find out what
arrangements had been, or were being,
made. Jagger said later that he thought
the Angels merely the American
counterparts of the British Hell's Angels,
wjio have often been employed to police
concerts in London. Anyone who has
seen a free concert in Hyde Park cannot
help but be struck by the naivete implicit
in such a statement when it comes to
violence, the British Angels are definitely
minor league. '
Mr. Leaven would have us believe that
"Gimme Shelter" is a whitewash, that it
exonerates the Stones from blame. I
would assert that it does the opposite,
that by illustrating the lack of concern
for their audiences which has
characterized the Stones of late, 'Gimme
Shelter" becomes anything but a
whitewash. And if Mr. Leaven really
believes that nonsense about the sex,
violence, and drugs in the Stones' lyrics
inciting the listener to rape, pillage, and
addiction (perhaps he would also have us
believe that aphrodisiacs do work), then I
would suggest that Mr. Leaven stick to
reviewing those old favorites of his, "The
Wolfman" and 'The Man with the
Atomic Brain."
John Marshall
327 Craige
Leaven clear
on Quarterly
To the editor:
In reference to the already tiresome
debate between Leaven and the editor of
the "Carolina Quarterly," may I simply
state what appears to me painfully
obvious. Mr. Leaven wrote what was on
the whole a sympathetic review of the
"Quarterly." He said he would refer only
to the poems and considering the limits
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Christianity, because the whole Gospel
message is rooted in love. "But God
shows his love for us, in that while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us," Paul
writes. The Bible points to the sacrifice of
Jesus on the cross as the highest example
of love God's love for man. God, not
love, has acted to reunite man with
Himself through Jesus Christ. And it is to
God, not the love He shows, that the
Christian responds.
But if we can't have love without God,
we can't have religion without love. Jesus
told his disciples the greatest
commandment he could give was to love
God. but he added. "And a second is like
it. You shall love your neighbor as
yourself." Christians are toid to put the
love they have into action, or face just
repudiation by a love-starved world.
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without sleep for 2S2 hours and 55
minutes (II days, 18 hours and 55
minutes).
The LONGEST I LAIR is that of Saami
Pandarasannadhi which measured 26 feet
in length in 1949.
The SMALLEST BABY which has
survived was Marion Chapman, born on
June 5, 1938 in South Shields, County
Durham, England. She weighed 10 ounces
at birth and was fed hourly through a
fountain pen filler.
The LIGHTEST human being (adult)
was Lucia Zarate, an emaciated Mexican
midget of 26lA inches who weighed 4.7
pounds at the age of 17. She "fattened
up" to 13 pounds by her 20th birthday.
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of space, he did an admirable job of
conveying the sense and the style of the
poetry in question.
He was very clear on his criteria for
judgment-if the reader disagreed with
Mr. Leaven's view of the world of poetry,
he could certainly not dispute the
reasonableness and calm with which that
view was put forward. I contrast this with
the hysterical flailings of Mr. Hicks and
his colleagues. If the editors of the
"Quarterly" cannot accept reasoned
criticism of their published work may I
humbly suggest they restrict themselves
in the future to circulating their creative
efforts only among themselves.
S. Charney
Durham
Witt botches
speech report
To the editor:
As a long-time supporter of the
administration policy of Vietnamization
and a silent critic of The Daily Tar Heel's
prejudiced coverage of anti-war activity
was a bit shocked by Tuesday's story on
David Dellinger's speech. N l' '
Mr. Evans Witt, a defender q
administration policy in Indochina and,
in other cases, a reasonably reliable
reporter, blew it. I am, as I said,"i
supporter of Vietnamization and a critic
of prejudiced coverage in the Tar lle'efl
however, I am also a critic of Mr. Witt's
obviously biased coverage of DellingerV
speech.
First of all, Hill Hall seats
approximately 600 to 700 people. Mr.
Witt said the speech was attended by a
"sparse audience of 300 persons." With
all but approximately . 1 50 seats in the
auditorium filled, the crowd must have
been closer to 500 people, as reported in
other newspapers.
His story, secondly, was filled with
mis-quotations. I realize that Mr. Wit was.
writing on a deadline and that taking
notes on a speech such as Mr. Dellinger's
is difficult, but in many places the whole
point Mr. Dellinger was trying to make
was blatanly misconstrued by Mr. Witt. ,
Thirdly, Mr. Dellinger is a draft,
resister. Granted he was convicted of,
"draft evasion" during World War II, but,,'
he-had turned down a CO status and had !
served his three years. He did not try to
evade anything. He chose to disobey the .
laws and he took his punishment. 'f
I want to close by saying that I do not,
agree with what Mr. Dellinger says, but I
defend his right to say it. And 1 find it
somewhat difficult to believe that The
Daily Tar Heel would purposely slant a
news story so that it made an anti-war '
speaker look bad.
No n -objective news coverage by
anyone, whether he stands on the.
political right or left, is a severe threat to
the tradition of a free press in this.,
country. '
Bross Stein
Jones Ferry Rd.
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For the Christian, putting love into
action means more than an occasional
"good deed" or an annual contribution to.
the missionary field. Love is reflected in
what we do for others the poor and
oppressed as well as for our friends. It is -reflected
in the way we pursue our '
careers, the political beliefs we hold, the
morality we advocate. Love may mean
taking a stand, or making a sacrifice. But
however it is expressed, love means more
than saying "I love you." It means
proving it. Christian' -e followers of
Jesus Christ, not love, but unless
Christian love is real, the world has every
right to doubt the Christian message.
Love is a powerful gift of God. And as
with all gifts, Christians must learn to
share.