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Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed on its editorial page.
All unsigned editorials are the opinions cf the editor. Letters and
columns represent only the opinions of the individual contributors."
Harry Bryan, Editor -
Thursday, April 29, 1971;
eoft oeedledL att all.
The Junior Transfer Forum has
made its recommendations on a
policy that would virtually abolish'
the junior transfer housing
requirement, and that policy ,is
expected to be okayed by the
University by the end of the year.
However, very little has been
said until this week about the plight
of the sophomore who is currently
being forced to spend an extra year
in University housing.
In letters sent this week to Dean
of Student Affairs CO. Cathey,
Steve Saunders, chairman of the
Residence College Federation, and
Robert Wilson, presidential advisor
on residential life, urged the UNC
administration to drop the
sophomore housing requirement.
, In light of the predicted
overenrollment on this campus next
year, both Saunders and Wilson
asked that sophomores as well as
junior transfers be allowed to live
off campus.
Both Saunders and Wilson
pointed out . the fact that the.
University may be facing the same
housing crisis next fall that forced
the crowding of many students in
dormitories this year.
The housing shortage became so
bad in the first few weeks of the
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CHAPEL HILL. APRIL 18. SUNDAY.
The sky above me is clear and bombless.
It is spring in Chapel Hill. "
TORONTO, CANADA. APRIL 9.
FRIDAY NIGHT. 8:00 p.m. An
auditorium filled with American and
Canadian women-black, white, Puerto
Rican, Chinese, Mexican. A red
banner-"Victory to the Indochinese
people." Restlessness and stirring ; . . A
speaker arises to the microphone, "The
Indochinese delegation his arrived."
CHAPEL HILL. ANY SATURDAY
MORNING, Tennis, the library, a football
game on t.v. Sleeping late after last
night's party. - 4v
TORONTO. SATURDAY MORNING.
APRIL 10. 'This conference should have
been held in Saigon or Washington;
however, coming from the battlefield,
warmest greetings from our fighting
women in South Vietnam . ... We want to
reconstruct our country so the birds can
sing and the roses bloom.
CHAPEL HILL. APRIL 18. SUNDAY.
I know it's spring because the birds are
singing and the roses bloom. ;
TORONTO. "We are a simple people
and want a gentle pace. Our forests are .
dead. We do not have enough food. After
U.S. imperialists bomb our villages, we
are forced to live in concentration camps
(called "refugee centers"). We are . not
allowed to bathe. There is no medical
care. Children under 14 are raped. We'
become sick and diseased. I lived in a
o
current school year that some
students were even moved into
makeshift rooms in dormitory
basements.
In order to prevent another
shortage, they said, the sophomore
requirement should be dropped so
that rooms can be made available
for incoming freshmen and junior
transfers who choose to live in
dormitories.
Dean Cathey countered the two
letters by saying the University
does not "contemplate any
crowding."
He added, "Should there be any
crowding, there would be a
liberalization of the policy to
prevent above-normal occupancy of
any room or dormitory."
However if Cathey is wrong
about the possibilities of
overenrollment and according to
Saunders and Wilson, he is he and
the University Housing Office will
be in for a tremendous headache
next fall.
If a housing shortage does arise
and the University relaxes the
policy, which sophomores will be
given, the opportunity to move out
of the dormitories? Will the
University let all sophomores out of
the dorms -or just a chosen few?
And how .will those chosen few be
picked.
And, finally, at that late date
how will they have the time to find
another place to live?
Another reason for dropping the
housing requirement for
sophomores is the quality of
University residence halls
themselves. ;
Dormitories on North Carnpus
are in pitiful condition. And South
C ampus dorms although newer
and more modern are just too far
away from the center of campus.
Many students who have already
lived in dorms for one year just
don't Want to go back, and they, are
justified.
If the University wants to fill its
residence halls it should improve
them to encourage students to live
in dorms rather than forcing them
to. - . , -
And if. the University is willing
to change its policy, those changes
should be made quickly to prevent
another housing crisis.
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prison in South Vietnam for 6 years, and
weighed 58 pounds when I was released.
(She paused in her story and presented a
ring made from parts of a shot-down U.S.
airplane to the Puerto Rican wife of a
POW). In 1955 Americans were visiting
prisons and giving instructions to our
torturers. We were put in sand bags and
left out in the sun to bake."
CHAPEL HILL. APRIL 1 8. SUNDAY
AFTERNOON. Basking in the sun on a
tar roof, browning our beautiful bodies.
Reading perhaps "The Greening of
America," and not understanding.
TORONTO. "We were given rotten
rice in prison."
CHAPEL HILL. SUNDAY.
Krogers-I7 brands of peanut butter.
Curlered women sluggishly pushing carts
up sterile aisles filled with systematically
arranged cans and boxes.
TORONTO. APRIL 11. SUNDAY. "I
, work for the ' Institute, for Mothers in
North Vietnam. I am a gynecologist. Our
women now bear malformed babies
because of, chemical warfare and the
bombings. Women participate in every
phase of the struggle." -
CHAPEL HILL. APRIL 20.
MONDAY. WCHL: "Hey girls! This is
National Secretaries Week. How about a
new dress from the Fireside."
. TORONTO. "Since Nixon came in
office the bombings in our country have
doubled. Nixon can withdraw all the
troops from Vietnm and still carry on the
rm ti
Wide-spread pesticides are quickly
adapted to by prolific pests yet threaten
slower breeding mammals with
extinction.
Technology's abuse extends most
graphically into the military field. Teller
and Truman's statements to the contrary,
Japanese population centers were not the
proper places to test Einstein's theories.
f (Einstein himself wept after Hiroshima
and pledged, with other hke-minded
scientists, never again to give information
to a government.) Like the Bomb, the
two world wars were made possible by
modern technology, as is our involvement
in Vietnam.
Even otherwise positive uses of
technology have contributed to problems.
Population growth has been augmented
by the greater productivity of
industrialization and by advances in
medicine and biological engineering-all
Letters to the editor
Reader
To the Editor:
This is an open letter of thanks to a
genuine good Samaritan and a sarcastic
thanks to a vicious savage. The thanks
and the sarcasm are of equal fervor for I
feel both so deeply that I'm having
trouble putting - them on paper. In a
supposedly civilized atmosphere of
intelligent people I find it hard to believe
that the following has happened. '
First I wish to thank that person or
persons who either on Saturday night or
Sunday found some wreckage on the
grounds of James dorm. Realizing that
some poor soul's bike has been vandalized
this person placed it (the wreckage) under
shelter. Thank you.
To address myself to a savage I must
first consider what kind of life it is.
Obviously it's of a very low form. I'm
sure that's what it must take to willfully
break, pick or whatever a chain holding a .
bicycle to a guardrail and upon doing this
heave it over to the ground six stories
below. I can think of no words " to
describe you, even some of the four-letter
variety. They are meant for people of at
least some intelligence and this you
obviously lack. If you think you were
brave ask an idiot what bravery means;
he'll know more than you about bravery.
For your malice and your viciousness I
thank you.
David W. Coleman
1 735 James
Jubilee critic's
wit recognized
To the editor:
In the future, a concerted effort must
be made to consult Mr. Pitt Dickey when
planning all-campus activities. Such
overwhelming good taste, judgment, and
wit would be an asset to UNC's activities "
. efforts.
One question for you, Mr. Dickey.
Where were you when the selections for
Jubilee (I like good grammar and good
taste), which you so severely criticized,
were being made? Could it be possible
(excuse me if I'm wrong) that you, Mr.
Dickey, are nothing more than - one of
those after-the-fact cats who contribute
n
OiiOOIUll
war. Through man's technology,
machines have been devised which can
carry on a computer war." k
WASHINGTON, D.C. UNDATED.
Nixon," "Let's bring the G.I.'s home."
TORONTO., "Nixon will never subdue
the fighting spirit of the Vietnamese
people. With the force of our unity, we
will win." (Their fascination and love for
the black babies here is beautiful. Sitting
among us, telling stories of war, they hold
the black babies and momentarily forget.)
TORONTO. APRIL 12. MONDAY "
MORNING. Telegram to Angela Davis:
"Dear Angela, the Indochinese women's
delegation moved by your greeting of
solidarity. We are against the policy of
racial discrimination. Firmly support
your struggle. Nixon must set .you free.
We must force him to set you free."
TORONTO. "I am from Laos. I
walked 200 miles (3 months) thru jungles
to come to this conference. We are a
people who live in caves. Our families are
divided by the war. The U.S. aggressors
are tramping on our beautiful land. My
father was assassinated by CLA agents in
1963. We love the American people, but
not Nixon and his stooges. Today we
want to express our gratitude and love for
your sympathy for our struggle. We thank
you. The struggle of the Indochinese
people is the struggle of us all."
CHAPEL HILL. APRIL 15. INCOME
, TAX DAY. A phone call from a friend in
' California. "Just sent in my taxes. I'm
of which have decreased deaths from
starvation and disease.
There are many in the University
community, particularly in the liberal
arts,, who negate the role of science in our
society and blame technology for the
manifold . ills of our planet. Materialism,
waste, pollution, Hiroshima, alienation,
mass cultural homogenization every vice
and desecration has been attributed to
the power of applied science
(technology).
Technology has been abused. Air,
water and land have been fouled, wasted
and large areas of civilized nations have
been transformed into desolate industrial
wastelands.
The land has been wastefully mined,
not only for minerals but for agricultural
products grown with concentrated
fertilizers which put soil on a speed trip,
burning out its life.
But if the use of science . and its
applied technology helped get us into the
s bicycle at tacked by
nothing to UNC except your tuition, yet
feel obliged to criticize the efforts of
persons who do?
Mr. Dickey, an intellect such as yours
should not lay fallow any longer. I beg
you to take your rightful place in the
forefront of campus activities.
Tom Manning
202 Mangum
Reader makes
note of error
To the editor:
This is in response to the article
concerning the Veterans for Peace war
crimes program the night of Friday, April
9. I would like kto correct what was either
an inaccuracy in the article or a serious
mistake on my part made during my talk.
In the article, I was quoted as having said
that the VC were: toys and that we (U.S.
servicemen stationed in Vietnam) looked
on them as playthings. What I remember
saying is that the Vietnamese people were
looked on as toys. Very few Americans
who were in combat in Vietnam saw the
VC as "toys." The VC and North
Vietnamese troops were deadly, well
trained soldiers, not playthings. The
civilian population, on the other hand,
had pretty much the same status with
U.S. troops as the target silhouettes on
basic training rifle ranges, and were
treated as such in many instances.
I appreciate the chance to make a
much needed correction. I would also like
to express my appreciation to those who
cared enough to come hear us last Friday.
I only hope that we were able to change a
few minds and spur a few people out of
their apathy. . .
Mark M. Smith
Cartoons hack
prof's ability
To the Editor:
I, for one, am tired of Mr. Cumming's
hacking, cartoon editorials . concerning
certain professors here at Carolina. Do
paying to kill the Indochinese next
Tuesday."
TORONTO. APRIL 12. MONDAY
AFTERNOON. Movie-"May
Day" atrocities of war. Americans killing
the jungle people of Vietnam. Sitting in
front row "with Vietnamese. The almighty
voice of Nixon, "the United States must
not become a second rate power." A G J.
rams a gun into the enemy's belly. The
enemy is my friend seated beside me.
Movie over . . . My friend from South
Vietnam stood and faced me. Without a
word, she hugged and kissed me on the
cheek. Then she said softly, "Goodbye.
Good luck. Good luck in Washington this
spring." And she disappeared. It was one
of the most difficult," sad and happy
moments of my life.
CHAPEL HILL. APRIL 18. SUNDAY.
The sky above me is clear and bombless.
It is spring in Chapel Kill. I know because
the birds are singing "and the roses
bloom . . . Perhaps across the world our
friends peer from a cave or from behind
the bars of a cell and try to get a glimpse
of a clear sky, hoping . . . More now.
Returned to villages and jungles, rotten
rice and dead - forests, their strength,
enthusiasm, firmness and love somehow
enduring. Their faith that we will help.
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Those wanting to help, join us in
Washington in May (May 1 thru May 5).
Call 942-7132. - '
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ecological crisis we now face, our hope
for survival lies also with science.
The population problem will not be
solved alone by philosophers, historians,
sociologists and other liberal artists. The
necessary knowledge and tools will be
gained by researchers and clinicians of
new and better applied birth control
technology.
The pollution problem will not be
solved because of moral outrage. It will
be solved because pollution hurts the
economy which hurts the polluters. "
Major corporations are already
responding with "systems approaches."
Using the "system approach", analysists
define each problem in terms of its total
related context, taking into account not
just a single goal, but the health and
efficiency of an entire system.
As long as the system in question
remains a single, profit-oriented
corporation, pollution, though decreased,
Mr. Cumming's cartoon editorials indicate
good humor, good policy, or just good
intellectual snobbery?
If Mr. Cummins's cartoon reflects his
personal views of the astronomy course,
he is now taking he has just proven to the
university how much, of a misfit he is
here. The majority of students come to
study so that the obtainable knowledge
will make them better persons. The other
students attend college taking "slides" to
see how high a grade can be obtained
with the least amount of work.
Mr. Cumming's astronomy professor is
a qualified teacher, quite knowledgeable
of his material? which he is capable of
presenting to the class with ease and
clarity. Mr. Cumming needs the ability to
distinguish between inadequate student
cooperation and the teaching ability of
his professor.
He needs not to be reminded that he is
an exceptional student, but perhaps he
should remember that this astronomy
coUrsg std&ptised primarily bf freshriieri
and sophomores, not seniors.
: Ray Walker
913 James
Communication
failure noted
To the Editor:
Today's issue of The Daily Tar Heel
sadly ' reminded me of a line from a
somewhat dated movie, Cool Hand Luke:
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will remain serious. However, when
applied to whole economies, the results
could be revolutionary -
A few universities are initiating
well-staffed and funded programs of
"systems analysis." Combined with
pollution researches already underway in
the Research Triangle, such a program
could be very effective in this area. UNC
would do well to study feasibility of such
a program.
The post-Sputnik science boom, begun
in Cold War fervor, has subsided as that
fervor dies. Misguided amateur ecologists
have attacked science itself. Government
funding and public support of scientific
research has fallen off.
This policy could be disasterous. If we
are to survive our present crisis, the most
advanced tools of science are necessary.
Through enlightened use of science
and technology our race may live to
confront the crises of centuries to come.
vandals
"Wat we have here is failure to
communicate." Time after time the
University hierarchy has shown the
students of UNC that it is incapable of
responding to the needs and desires of the
students. The controversy over student
activities funding is the most recent of a
series of controversies such as visitation,
obligatory dorm residence for Junior
transfers, etc. in which the University has
shown itself to be inflexible to student
input.
Until the University realizes that
communication is a two-way street, the
quality of student life here at UNC will
continue to deteriorate. The sooner
students take action toward forcing the
University to regard students as real
people with real wants and needs, the
more rapidly genuine communications,
and thus responsiveness to student input,
will be established.
Chuck Voigt
212 Everett
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