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Hurry Bryan, Editor
Wednesday, April 28. 1971
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Almost every weekend, there are
minor incidents in campus
dormitories that go unreported to
police or newspapers. They usually
involve people making excessive
noise, drinking too much, or a
combination of both.
l Dorm residents often handle
uch incidents themselves.
Sometimes, they have to call
resident advisors or campus police
for help. Still, incidents are ignored
because it is a weekend and
students are expected to relax,
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q Another weekend dorm incident
earne to light Tuesday in a letter to
The Daily Tar Heel. Four Morrison
Dorm coeds were confronted early
Sunday by an irrationally-acting
individual who attempted to
undress in their sixth floor suite.
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The intruder walked into a room
Where two girls were talking and
stared at them. He was partially
undressed. They told him to leave,
and he walked down the hall to
another room where two girls were
sleeping. One awoke and picked up
a pair of scissors. He left the room
and finally the suite.
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Fearful of his return, the coeds
called Chapel Hill police to ask for
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J A new interdisciplinary program
flowing rising juniors to decide on
their own particular course of study
during their final two years of
undergraduate work has recently
een approved by the Faculty
Council. -
- Instead of forcing students into
specified programs with few
eleciives and many courses in which
they are really not interested, the
new program will allow students to
set their own objectives and then
design their own programs to meet
them.
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The decision by the Faculty
Council to accept the new program
was a good one.
. For once students are being
given the opportunity to get what
they want out of college rather
than having their education shoved
down their throats.
Lentz
Man is the measure of all things.
Protagoras
1 The belief structure of the youth
culture has been affected strongly by
changes in art, literature and music during
the last half century.
The advent of movies, stereo sound
and slick color magazines allowed the
face of the world we know to be
reproduced rapidly and accurately for the
first time.
.Novelists abandoned the world of
description to enter the world of the
mind, rich with images that overlap,
contrast and intertwine, images that
portray the fullness and bounty of human
le. Artist left the "realistic" world of
te cold masters to enter the universe of
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help. "A matter for the campus
police to handle," replied the
dispatcher.
The dispatcher then gave the
campus police number, to the girls,
although he had to repeat it several
times because they "were frightened.
- Chapel Hill Police Chief William
Blake later explained the incident
was a mistake and not indicative of
standard policy. , .
The efficiency of Chapel" Hill
police was better demonstrated
Monday and Tuesday in a series of
drug arrests. None of the current
arrests were made on campus,
although eight students were
involved and Granville Towers was
searched. Drug arrests on campus
during the past few years have been
plentiful. Several campus arrests
have been made this year.
The Chapel Hill police have
demonstrated more than a willing
attitude to enter the campus when
drugs are involved. Their policy has
been clear and unconfused.
They have not been as consistent
with other campus matters-such as
the early morning threat to four
Morrison coeds.
The four coeds were not
harmed, which makes a mistake by
the Chapel Hill police seem minor.
However, the selectivity of town
police involvement with campus
affairs raises a major question.
If Chapel Hill police cannot go
on campus to protect students
should they go on campus to arrest
students?
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79 Years of Editorial Freedom
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color, form and line growing in the mind
of man. Sculptors brought this world to
life in 3-D.
Musicians have also joined in the race
downward into the mind of man. Music is
no longer the formal, structured
progression of a nationalistic
conciousness-it has become the auditory
image of the surge, pling, crang and roar
of the mind at its lowest level.
The aim of all art forms in the present
age seems to be the capture of experience
while it is yet experience . . . before it has
become only memory. Thus artists spash
squiggle and splat in a furious attempt to'
go where the colors lead them. And
writers ram the reader through a harried
succession of images, gimmicks and
experiences connected only : by the
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It has been said the hardest part of
getting an education is finding a place to
park. Whoever said it must hare had the
University of North Carolina in mind.
The parking problem has long been
recognized as one of the most pressing on
campus, but the -Administration -in. the
persons of the Traffic Committee -have
been strangely and seemingly deliberately
unresponsive to it.
Case in point: Scott Residence
College.
Last Wednesday, the Traffice
Committee heard, among other items of
business, a request from Scott residents in
Teague and Avery, to be allowed to park
in front of their own dorms.
Now, there certainly doesn't seem to
be anything unreasonable or even illogical
in a request like that. In fact, on the face
of it, most people might think it a little
silly for residents to park anywhere but in
front of their own dorms.
Not the Traffice Committee. Parking
areas adjacent to Teague and Avery have
for years been pre-empted for commuter
students. Wednesday, members .of the
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Letters to the editor
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To the editor:
By clinical definition, I am not a
homosexual. However, in Harry Smith's :
excellent article titled "Homosexuality
has its Problems," if the word feminist
were substituted for the word
homosexual, I believe your readers would
be better informed about the feminist
movement. Taking each of . Smith's
statements about homosexuals, I could
substitute the word "feminist" (an
advocate of equal rights for women). For
example "Homosexuals are faced with a
multitude of problems, completely
. foreign to fhost heterosexuals." Feminists
are faced with many problems, including
the reaction by Others that "many people
react as if we have a fatal disease they
could catch" . . . A11 agree there was a
wide variety of homosexuals," like there
is among feminists. I could go on and on
describing the life of a feminist. "But
religion isn't the only situation where
homosexuals or feminists' want
changes" . . . "First, get rid of the laws -against
it." It appears that since the Equal
Rights Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution has not been passed,
primarily thanks to North Carolina's
Senator Ervin (who was born in the dark
ages, and still lives in them), there are
laws against feminism. A woman can be
fired from her job for being a feminist,
just as, a homosexual can be fired. Like
the homosexuals, as a feminist "We want
the ability to be ourselves, to carry on ,
and live our lifestyle (without sex
discrimination) the way we choose
without being harassed (with letters,
telephone calls, and nasty personal
comments)." Like the homosexuals, "I .
thought stream of a rebounding mind. .?
At the heart of this race toward the
realistic image lies the belief that man is
the lowest common denominator of
experience, and the image the basic unit
of that experience.
We can visualize, for example, the
single thread of a lone nerve in our brain,
a simple chemical relay. The impulse
strikes out along the approaching nerve,
reaches the terminal and then faces a
choice between two exits. Yes or no, zero
or one, right or left. The basic unit of
logical thought, a choice between two
directions in the train of thought.-
Each single train of thought carries a
message sweet or sour, black or white,
tall or short. And the single-track
.roadways of the mind soon grow into
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committee were asked to change things a
bit -to certify part of these areas for "G",
or general student parking.
Although there must be finalization of
the committee's recommendations by the
Chancellor, the request appears now to
have been turned down.
Why?
Not for lack of good arguments on
behalf of Scott College. Residence Life
Director Robert Kepner, RCF chairman
Steve Saunders and former Scott
Governor Steve Brooks were all at the
Traffic Committee to plead their case.
They argued convincingly, even
eloquently, but to no awail.
Perhaps -the best argument was
advanced by Saunders who said simply
that dormitory residents ought to have
priority for parking spaces near their
dorms. Moreover, the present system of
giving commuter students spaces nearest
to campus encourages students to move
out of the dorms into off-campus
apartments.
Presumably the University is interested
in getting students to remain in the
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don't think that's really asking too
much." Apparently, it is asking too much
of the University of North Carolina,
Senator Ervin, President Nixon, and most
of society. This is how I feel as a feminist.
And when is the DTH going to let
feminists have their say? When the UNC
Psychology Department appears unaware
of the new psychology of women, when
the School of Education brags about
hiring qualified women when they at the
same time, hire underqualified men; when
the English Department treats women
badly, etc., I feel the entire University is
very much unaware of the problems of
feminists or even the problems of women.
I am tired of men speaking for me. I am
tired of a white male dominated DTH,
UNC administration, state government
and Ervin's attempts to tell women what
to do. Good-bye to all that! If only there
was a way to work within the system to
obtain one's rights! Maybe there is.
Joan Joesting, Ed. D.
School Psychologist
N.C. taxpayer
Taylor letter:
identity error
To the editor:
This is all getting to be a bit ridiculous.
First, Mr. Dickey stoked my ire and now,
unjustly, I have been maligned by the
opposite sex. Miss Fisher, I thank you for
the compliment, but your error must not
go uncorrected.
expressways that form images, bundles of
' informational messages that become the
building-blocks of experience.
The single trains of thought, is the
language of the computer, the machine
we made in our image. If not A, then B,
and if not B, then go to X and start all
over again. The computer thinks along a
single track, proceeding from one step to
another in a linear logical progression
sometimes broken, by the do-loops and
other variations. .
But the single track, the logical
progression from cause-effect to
cause-effect will not explain experience.
The mind of man is not logical, orderly.
It is madness, it is whirlwind, it is
grandpa's cane and candy canes and sugar
candy and "Sugar, I love you."
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residence halls, and such a minor change
in the parking requirements as this one
might help. In fact, with this change and
a few more like it, the Administration
might even be able to drop the
requirement that all sophomores live on
campus.
But the Traffic Committee apparently
took no such factor into consideration.
Equally cogent arguments concerning the
congestion of Ehringhaus parking lot and
difficulties of Scott residents parking at
James and Craige were also ineffective.
So, in the face of these arguments, the
question still remains: Why did the
Traffic Committee turn down the Scott
College request?
The argument (for the status quo) was
advanced that the spaces are needed for
mothers who must get their children to
nurserys in time to make class. Another
point (?) raised was that Ehringhaus and
James residents might . park in these
places.
The first point doesn't hold water for
two reasons: 1) There is a bus service
running from spaces farther out, and 2)
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TAYLOR
Is Alexander Taylor that unique a
name? And what made you think that
Alex Taylor (the one we all know) would
waste his time with "inane rebuttals?"
A little geography lesson: Alex Taylor ,
lives in Martha's Vineyard (way. up in
Massachusetts). I have no reason to
believe he was in Chapel Hill at the time
Mr. Dickey's Well-written piece of
sarcasm" appeared in the DTH.
I must say I did get two good chuckles
and you, Miss Fisher, gave purpose to my
loudest hee-haws. Hurt? More than you'll
ever know my sides are killing me.
Alexander Taylor
Critic pans L
as 'floor show'
To the editor:
On Thursday, April 22, 1971, at 7:30
p.m. in 101 Greenlaw, I, as a newly
elected representative to SL, was on hand
to witness an excellent floor show on the
part of what I took to be Conservative
Party floor leader Charles Gilliam and his
disciples. It was quite a show. After
beating down a challenge that would have
provided for a temporary rules committee
to write new by-laws, I watched Mr.
Gilliam beautifully manipulate many of
' the aspiring candidates for committee
positions. How easily they were led
along! Why? Because they were more
concerned that they got a committee post
than with whether or not they
represented their duped constituents.
The essential difference between man
and the computer, man's ultimate claim
to greatness is th ability to form
associations for reasons he had not
noticed before.
So while the youth culture yearns for
interpersonal communication that reaches
beyond our ability to
communicate while young people
despair at never really being able to reach
another human being at this
consciousness, there is stiH a sense of joy
and wonder in the mind.
There is still-the fascination with the
ultimate trip sailing on an acid-soaked
head through the merry-go-round of your
own lifetime. Roaring endlessly through a
stream of image complexes, through
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the spaces in front of Scott CoHetre are not
popular with the mothers in question.
The second point is too ridiculous to
merit refutation.
So why did the Traffic Committee
turn down the Scott College request?
Because, in my estimation, they are
hopelessly far removed from the needs
and desires of tee students. Because,
moreover, they seem just as far removed
from the realities of campus parking
habits. How long has it been since
committee members have investigated the
situation on South Campus? Four years?
Five? At any rate they are hell-bent on
brushing off the almost desperate pleas
corning from those who live there and see
the problem every day.
Students till have one recourse: The
Chancellor must make the final decision.
Chancellor Sitterson has in the past
shown himself to be a just and reasonable
man. He will show himself so again if he
will overturn the recommendations of his
advisory committee on traffic and free a
few spaces in front of Teague for
on-campus students.
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I heard one legislator, trying to get
another representative to vote for a
particular candidate, after that
representative had already achieved an
esteemed position on one of these
powerful committees, say something like
this: "Come one, you can vote for him
now; you're all ready on a committee,
Gilliam can't hurt you now."
On another occasion, I watched as Mr.
Gilliam, to put it mildly and courteously,
"requested" that one of his crew vote for
a particular motion. I'm familiar with all
the talk about the "mickey mouse" SL.
Tonight I saw even more convincingly
why SI, has earned that label. And I just
want a few students who are interested to
know about it.
You ask my goals for the coming year:
Basically, it's to try to regenerate some
sense of duty within SL. I completely
agree with you if you say that's a pretty
naive statement. Because, honestly, I
don't manipulate as well as do some of
the SL members I know.
Fred Davenport
Editorial page
needs diversity
To the editor:
Wouldn't your editorial page profit ,
from greater diversity of viewpoint? Why i
not shock us with some Pro-Agnew i
editorials or with some anti-religious
editorials to balance Ken Ripley's'
nonsense?
Ronald Hoeflin
Chapel Hill
sunflowers, joy, memories, touch, ice
cream. Trying to recapture the life cf
now, the streaming, surging fascination of
conciousness with the complexity and
variety of the world around it.
The strngglt of the young to recreate
simple, shining wonder-the glory of the
child experienceing a new touch, or taste
or feel. A struggle opposed by the ritual,
the convention of modern-day society;
the safe, simplistic image-train of
television; the quiet, c ierly, grey-day
death of men. who die slowly, easily,
without ever realizing they have breathed
their hst.
The unending struggle to help people
touch where they really live, and to join
hand-in-hand for the race toward
reaiity-our topic next time.
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