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Harry Bryan, Editor
Wednesday, May 5, 1971
Mil n EonDlueqLiioes
The Consolidated University
suffered a second attack Tuesday in
the North Carolina Senate.
Just one week after it was
learned that two state legislators are
massing an attack on The Daily Tar
Heel, Sen. Jyles Coggins of Wake
County has introduced a bill to
abolish visitation in all state
supported colleges.
i Sen. (Hoggins' bill reads:
' "No student enrolled in any
state supported educational
institution shall visit in the
bedroom or other sleeping quarters
maintained by or for a student,
who is a member of the opposite
sex, upon the campus of any state
educational institution.
$ "Any violation of the terms of
this act shall be grounds for
'suspension or expulsion. Provided,
this act shall not apply to married
Students visiting in the bedrooms of
their spouses."
b The bill has left many students
speechless, due to the fact that it is
often extremely difficult to argue
against a ridiculous idea except to
ay that it is just ridiculous.
And that is the only way Sen.
Coggins bill can be viewed.
It is ridiculous.
Possibly Sen. Coggins has been
spending too much time in Raleigh
rather than visiting the campuses
the bill would affect.
Evidently the senator has visions
of.-., male students .. chasing nude
coeds throughout the halls of UNC
dorms with an orgy going on in
every room.
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t Editor's Note: the following column
appeared in the Monday May 2, Daily
Tar Heel Due to printing errors which
made the column unreadable, it is being
reprinted.
On : April 16, the Daily Tar Heel
printed an editorial concerning Indochina
war deaths and student apathy, which1
illustrated beautifully how this apathy
has resulted in (or from) widespread
ignorance of the most basic information
concerning the conflict.
h It began by reporting the recent
Administration announcement that
battlefield deaths in the war since 1961
have passed 900,000.
Next it pointed out that this fugure
includes neither battlefield deaths prior
to 1961 nor civilian deaths. Then came
the incredible: it was reasoned that, "The
number of deaths not counted in the
'official' figures would probably send the
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This, however, is obviously not
the case.
Students on this campus have
enjoyed an open house policy for
almost three years, and violations
of the policy have been few and far
between.
The open house policy proved so
successful in its first year that it
was soon liberalized, and , students
have been fighting this year for an
even more liberal policy that would
give them total freedom in
determining the hours and
. regulations of visitation.
But instead of treating students
like the adults they have proven
they are, Sen Coggins has
introduced his bill which would
wipe out visitation completely.
Before any members of the
General Assembly decide to go
along with Sen. Coggms' bill, they
should carefully consider what they
are doing.
And instead of sitting in Raleigh,
wondering what goes on in UNC
dorms during visitation, they
should come to this campus and
any others in the Consolidated
University and find out for
themselves.
With 'thatt:
many tliese
doe'll: woiriry.
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King Nyle I has scheduled a
picnic for the State of North
Carolina Sunday at Umstead State
Park, and "all North Carolineans
and North. Carolinean
sympathizers' have been invited.
King Nyle sent out invitations to
around 90 dignitaries, but it seems
that already a lot of them have sent
their regrets.
Among those who have already
said they won't come are Gov. Bob
Scott; Sen. Sam Ervin; Jesse Helms,
editorialist of WRAL-TV in
Raleigh; Alabama Gov. George
Wallace; President Nixon;
Vice-President Agnew; and J.
Robert Jones, Grand Dragon of the
KKK.
We know you're disheartened
that they won't be there Nyle, but
don't worry.
If everybody else comes, that'll
only be about four and a half
million people.
And with that many people
there, who'll miss 'em?
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total deaths attributable to tne war to
around one million."
Since the average UNC student accepts
this as Divine Truth, I will try to do a
little educating.
First, if the United States fought the
war in the same manner as the
Communists fight it, there probably
would be fewer than 100,000 civilian
deaths: as of last summer, the total
number of South Vietnamese civilians
killed by the enemy since the war began
was placed at 29,000 by most- official
XJJS. spokesmen, while President Nixon
quoted the figure of 40,000 in a speech.
We may be certain that the true figure
was not much higher American officials
would quickly have snapped this up.
Unfortunately, our technological
capability has permitted us to fight a
different kind of war, one providing
miriimum risk for American soldiers, at
the cost of maximum risk for Vietnamese
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Jubilee . . . Woodstock . ..
Altamont . . . Jubilee and the rock
festival phenomenon is dying at last.
Here we are, the peace generation.
Better get outa my way 'cause I'm here
too.
That's about the attitude that's
encountered at today's festivals.
In theory, the festival concept is nice;
in practice, it stinks.
The first problem with such
productions is a physical one where are
we going to put that many people, not to
mention their cars and such, plus first aid,
OD centers and the ever necessary johns.
Then, if you get that one solved, what are
you going to do with the human animals
that flock thereto.
For those "people," for whom such
things are given, forget all their rhetoric
of love and brotherhood once and if they
can get in . . . for the unwritten law doth
state: "If it's music and you wish to go
there to and dig, then, go dig indeed,
regardless of who andor where it may be.
If someone or anyone, regardless of who
he may be, opposes thee in any of thy
desires whilst thou art engaged, ignore
him, abuse him or trample him so that
thou mayest indulge in that which thy
heart desires."
Thusly, even if the place is the old
football lot on West 41st Street and there
are already 1 ,000 people there, go if you
want, and get someone's place if you can.
He can displace someone else anyway. ,
But it is not right to close a
festival such as our Jubilee to anyone,
you cry. This may well be true from your
view. And I as well would have rather
seen this past Jubilee open to all, thus
reducing the amount of policing that was
necessary and, more importantly,
reducing the amount of physical damage
which was done to the facilities. But such
was not the case.
When you get that many people
together in one place, other problems
develop. The amount of trash, for
example. No problem for you, the
individual festival goer. But after 5,000,
50,000 or 500,000 individual festival
goers leave, the amount of trash is almost
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civilians. The result, as calculated from
the incomplete official figures of the
Agency for International Development
(AID), has been between 50,000 and
60,000 Soutn Vietnamese civilian deaths
per year every year since U.S.. bombing
and "search and destroy" missions began
in 1 965. That comes to about 300,000 or
so there alone ...
Next we might consider the thousands
of civilian deaths we know have occurred
in Cambodia since American intervention
there led to the initiation of hostility.
(We must never forget that this
phenomena was absent during the
previous Viet. Cong occupation of the
country). And there is Laos: Republican
Congressman Paul McCloskey of
California, upon returning recently from
a guided tour of that country, stated that
there are 9,400 villages in all of Laos, and
that the U.S. Air Force has destroyed
"thousands" of them. He made clear that
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incomprehensible. After all, it's sure a lot
simpler to toss it on the ground. After all,
I'm here to have a good time, not concern
myself with etiquette. And besides,
someone else will be paid to pick it up.
Or else, screw it, what's one more cup.
Okay, so we've morally justified going,
getting in and leaving an incredible mess.
Big deal. But what about all those people,
all our brothers, fellow members of the
"Woodstock Nation." "
Bull. Bull, bull, bull. You know it and
so do I.
If you're lucky enough to get a place
in front, near the stage which is rightly
yours because you got in line three hours
before the gates opened, I agree-then
when you want to stand up, you shall.
Those people in back only came to listen
anyway. They won't miss anything. And
if you're in the back, you give up
. anyhow, or else squeeze yourself a spot in
the front while whoever was there first is
off doing something else. Sorry about
that, didn't know anyone owned that
blanket, thought was mine. Sorry.
Orwell.
. So now, you've gotten in under the
fence or through the gate and you've
systematically worked yourself from a
spot just standing on the edge to a spot
right at the restraining fence at the front
Michele Bryant
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Recently the UNC Student Legislature
has gone through some hair-raising budget
allocations. One of the most heated
arguments centered around the funding
of the Black Student Movement. The split
was over whether or not the BSM is a
racist organization. The constitution of
the University prohibits Student
Legislative funding of organizations that
discriminate on the grounds of race, color
or religion.
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this was not simply "a figure of speech."
How many more civilian deaths in these
two countries?
Finally, there is the plight of those
unfortunate souls who committed the
horrendous crime of being born on the
wrong side of an arbitrary parallel
negotiated thousands of miles away. We
have no way of knowing how many tens
of thousands of innocent North
Vietnamese civilians our massive bombing
raids of the Johnson years killed we can
only hope they suffered less at our hands
than did our "friends" to the South!
The most important thing to keep in
mind when considering Indochina's
civilian deaths is the statistical
uncertainty involved. A government
which has the remarkable capability to
count every last grain of rice scooped
from Cambodian sanctuaries, and which
has introduced a whole new dimension in
warfare-Instant Enemy Body Count -is
somehow reduced to bumbling
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of the stage. Now what the heck do they
need a fence around the stage for. There's
nobody really big here this weekend.
Nobody's going to rush the stage and grab
some joker's bootstraps.
So screw the fence. Down it comes
and there you are, arms on the edge of
the stage.
But something is wrong with the
sound system . . . not just here, but
anywhere . . . and, well IH be, there you
are, sitting on the table holding the
monitor speakers. Well, you and all those
with you, on the wrong side of the
restraining fence suddenly find some
dude pushing through. Forget it buddy,
you say, tightening up against your
brother next to you. Hey, you yell on to
those onstage, play. That's what we came
here for, so quit screwing around.
Well, it seems that something is wrong
with the sound system and some of the
speakers aren't working. And that dude
trying to push his way through is only
one of the sound men trying to get to the
equipment to check it out. But screw
him, you don't care if the people in back
can't hear, you can hear fine. Besides,
that dude might stay there in front of
you the whole time and you won't be
able to see as well.
So screw it, just play. That's what
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The BSM is an organization of black
students whose purpose is to provide the
campus with the cultural aspects of black
people in this state and throughout the
country.
Judging by the name one would not
expect to find white students. Another
important point, whites may work with
blacks, read many books about them or
have a degree in Afro-American studies
but none of these guarantees a place in
the black society and vice versa.
As for the question of racism, maybe
the BSM is racist in a strict sense, but so
is the University. Racism has two aspects;
it is both overt and covert. It takes two
forms: individual whites against
individual blacks, and acts on the part of
the white against the black community,
or simply, individual and institutional
racism. It is the latter that concerns us
here.
The University ; of North Carolina is
institutionally racist against its black
student population. It originates in the
operations of established and respected
policies in the society here. For the white
student the University is a means to an
end or a successful future. It may mean
this to a black student, but it also means
white assimilation and loss of identity.
The black student has nothing here that
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To the editor:
The May 4 editorial page carried a
photo of U.S. troops standing quietly
along a D.C. street, obviously there to
quell the May Day Tribe. An anonymous
DTH staff scholar captioned it: "Hitler
would have been proud."
Hitler would have been anything but
proud. He consciously used "street
people" himself to disrupt the
constitutional government. His collection
of drug addicts, homosexuals, and
criminals was known as the Brownshirts
becase, also like the May Day Tribe, they
affected parts of military uniforms and
cult clothing to express their
individuality. The Brownshirts, under
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incompetence when confronted with the
minor problem of civilian deaths. How
many? Three hundred thousand? Five
hundred thousand? A million or more?
All of these have been advanced as serious
possibilities, although the first is seldom
heard any more.
How pleased the Pentagon would be to
know that there are student editors about ,
who, while professing sharp opposition to
U.S. war policies, fail to use the damning
figures of the government itself,
preferring to circulate much nicer ones
instead!
It is states like North Carolina that are
keeping this war going. But as long as
UNC students remain apathetic, how can
we ever hope to see war opposition
radiating outward from Chapel 1122? The
only we will eliminate apathy on this
campus is through an informed student
body. An informed DTH editorial staff
would represent a good start; so would an
occasional informative article on Vietnam
you're here for.
The real nation-! fervor started with
Woodstock, although there were outdoor
music festivals prior to that
time-Newport's pzz and fol); festivals
for example. And no doubt there were
problems there also.
But the whole thing culminated at
Altamont in December cf 1959, that tig,
free Stones concert on the West Coast
where several died and, acccrJ.."g to
"Gimme Shelter," the Stones' Him of
that event, Marty Balin of the Jefferson
Airplane got himself popped in the face
after being pulled from the st:ge by
person or persons unknown. That concert
is the one that really blew the Woodstock
myth wide open and showed our
"beautiful generation" of love and peace
for exactly what we are -a-J how so very
much I wish it were the myth that held
the truth.
Maybe the performers themselves will
help end this generational suicide by
ceasing to price themselves out of the
market, preferring to play smaller indoor
concerts and refusing to phy outdoors at
all.
The outdoor festival bit has reached its
limit, succeeding only in producing a
generation of animals knowing only the
law of the jungle.
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gives him a true sense of belonging.
Admittedly there are a few courses,',
faculty and administrators geared toward
him but not enough. He is also isolated
by the majority of social functions.
The black student has the ideals of the.
white society forced on him. He is
expected to accept these ideals blindly,
without regard for his own future. What
must he do with these ideals when he
returns to his black community? Will
they relate? The system fails him because
he becomes marginal. Marginality is tragic
in our society; being caught in the middle
is disastrous for anyone.
Realizing this, the black students of
the University have banded together in
order to establish identity and unity and.
present their way of life to the University
community. Each year they meet
opposition from the very source 1h-t
made the organization necessary. onba
Racism breeds itself. Therefore, i!14l
necessary for a vzticty of orgarJiiUaiil tit
exist and perpetuate the idea cf !UiJ
liberal-arts institution. Ethnic groups
should not be excluded. Interaction is'tJ
best teacher. People provide a mSr
lasting and effective education and peopli
are the only solution to racism anywhem
A combination of organized groups who
provide this interaction would make for a
better University.
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Ernst Roehm, spent their May Days ia
Berlin (guess what!) trashing streets and
destroying private property in the name
of Socialism. Surely even the editors of
the DTH are beginning to get a glimmer
of where Rennie Davis evolved Ms
charming tactics and why "apathetic"
students stayed on campus. But, then,
Ernst Roehm and Rennie Davis just
wanted people to love one another, right?
I know it would tax the time of some
DTH editors to take a basic history
course, but perhaps they could do a little
reading. I suggest 'The Little Golden
Book of World History" as a logical start,'
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(maybe once every month!)
The Vietnamese people could really
use a few friends over here rigit now. It h
hard to contemplate the bitterness they
would feel toward American students
were they aware of our continuing
collective self-righteousness our
response to the war. There is no excuse
for self-righeous feeling simj'y because
our response has been less despicable than
that of the nation at large.
The war is continuing full-steam;
American involvement is causing as many
deaths now as it was before; only those
regarding Orientals as subhuman can take
plearre in the decrec-e in American
- deaths.
If the contrasf ;n loed student
anti-war activity between Izzt spring and
this one is any indication, there'are a few
conclusions we should be resell -g about
ourselves.. Perhaps all thzt mlxchlrg
around list May really was ever r.oilL!j
more than Kent State.