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H2rry Bryan, Editor
Thursday, May 6. 1971
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A recommendation was made
Wednesday at a meeting of the
Chancellor's Committee on Student
Stores to stop the University policy
of giving $45,000 in profits from
the stores to the UNC Athletic
Association for grants-in-aid.
' The motion was made by Steve
LaTour, a UNC student who said
his recommendation was based on
two "principles of equity."
First, LaTour said, the athletic
program should support itself, and
secondly, Student Stores profits
come from its business with the
general student body and should
not go to a particular segment of
the student body.
Both of LaTour's arguments are
sound.
The Athletic Association should
definitely not be in need of money
from the student body.
The Carolina football team
earned the right to travel to the
Peach Bowl, and the basketball
team won the National Invitational
Tournament. Obviously, alumni
gifts for athletics will
increase. Also, the Athletic
Association has announced its plans
to astro-turf a portion of Navy
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from the Charlotte Observer
North Carolina's presidential
primary promises to be one of the
most interesting and exciting
political events in many a decade. It
should have significant impact on
the national nominating process.
More importantly, it will give the
North Carolina voter a, voice in
selecting the. candidates for the
nation's highest office.
, . Some of our voters won't share
in that voice, however. There is a
28-year-old statute barring the use
of,, absentee ballots in primary
elections, and until the law is
changed by the General Assembly
many thousands of residents will be
denied the right to participate in
this important event.
The way the law affects students
is highlighted in a letter appearing
in today's Forum. The writer,
Gerry Cohen of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is
one of several thousand students
recently granted the right to vote in
national elections. But he, like
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Field where the football team
practices.
If there is enough money to
waste on astro-turfing a practice
field and then paying the added
expense of keeping it in repair, the
Athletic Association is definitely
not hurting for operating funds.
The money now going from
Student Stores profits into the
Athletic Association could be
rechanneled into other areas that
would help many more students.
Numerous organizations on
campus need funding but can't get
it from either Student Legislature
or the University., That $45,000
would be more than enough.
Or it could go into a scholarship
fund for needy students, as was
proposed by LaTour.
It is obvious that the Athletic
Association does not need . the
$45,000 from Student Stores to
pay grants-in-aid, and it is also
obvious that the money is badly
needed in other areas.
It is only right that the
University follow LaTour's
suggestion and spend the money
where there is real need.
others, will be able to exercise that
right in the presidential primary
only at great personal sacrifice.
His letter shows again how the
current election laws discriminate
against students, many of whom
will be voting for the first time in
1972.' But this time the
discrimination extends to many
others who will be unable to be in
their home precincts on primary
election day. (The statewide
absentee vote in the 1968 general
election was 1 8,000. This excludes
some 24,000 military absentee
ballots, which are still honored in
primary elections.)
Use of the absentee ballots in
primary elections was outlawed
many years ago because of the
fraudulent abuse it received from
unscrupulous politicians. According
to Alex Brock of the State elections
Board, there was a greater
opportunity to manipulate absentee
balloting in a one-party primary
than in other elections where "one
party could keep an eye on the
other."
Such reasoning does not speak
highly of our election system. It is
not too reassuring to learn that an
honest use of absentee ballots
depends on the watchfulness of
political parties. What is needed,
perhaps, is a more efficient and
effective method of checking the
ballots sent to local election boards
rather than an outright ban on such
ballots during primary elections.
Whatever its merits, the current
law passes a political judgment on
the relative importance of one kind
of election over another. In the
process, it restricts the voting rights
of many North Carolina citizens,
quite possibly against constitutional
guarantees.
Perhaps it is time for the General
Assembly to begin reviewing state
election laws with an eye toward
updating some provisions. There
has been much, federal activity
recently in extending the voting
franchise to all segments of the
citizenry, arfd we ought to strive to
maintain the spirit of these changes
not only in general and local
elections, but in primaries as well.
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Fred Penru
It's spring, and, according to the poets,
the thoughts of young men axe turning to
love.
But the situation is different with the
old men.
Take, for example, the legislators
in
Raleigh. 1
For them spring is the time to "Get
the University."
Witness the activities of the past two
weeks. First Sen. Julian Allsbrook, the
man who would like to repeal the 20th
Century, announces plans to cut off
funds for The Daily Tar Heel because it
publishes a story saying homosexuality
exists in Chapel Hill.
Then Sen. Jyles Coggins, a co-sponsor
of AUsbrook's move against progress,
introduces a bill to outlaw visitation on
state campuses.
The rites of spring are now in full
swing in Raleigh, and T.B. Lait, assistant
door-keeper at the legislative building in
Raleigh, isn't in the least surprised.
"Hell, these people do the same thing
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Tony Leniz
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Be it life or death, we crave only
reality. If we are really dying, let us hear
the rattle in our throats and feel cold in
the extremities; if we are alive, let us go
about our business.
Henry David Thoreau
The avant garde of today's youth
culture glories in dirt, sweat and farm
houses without indoor plumbing. The
primary requirement for anything in their
lives is that it be real, that it lack pretense
or, polish. That it be honest.
Street people along Franklin sell toys,"
belts and candles they made
themselves honest toil. Freaks joy in
hair, eating and drinking, making love,
and all the other personal experiences
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UNC alumnus Allard Lowenstein has
started a dump Nixon campaign. Students
across the nation are starting to organize
for McGovern. Washington Witness
IH-or is it IV?-is in the planning. The
"New Politics" that Eugene McCarthy
started is sweeping the country. .
But is the "New Politics" different
from the old? Do the left-liberals stand
for change? McCarthy managed to get
vast student support by sounding dovish
in his speeches, but his record was hardly
anti-war. For instance, he voted for the
Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Another UNC
alumnus, Tom Wicker, wrote,
"McCarthy's purpose in running was to
channel their (the students) energies into
constructive political effort rather than
let them explode in street
demonstrations ... If he did not totally
succeed, at least he "got an "A" for
effort." On CBS news McCarthy said,
"While immediate withdrawal would end
the war, it would lose the peace." The
former Senator's peace entailed the right
of U.S. businessmen to exploit
Vietnamese land, water and people. His
idea of peace is clearly contrary to that of
the Vietnamese.
The McCarthy of 1972 is George
McGovern. The South Dakota Senator
has addressed countless anti-war rallies
and has worked in Congress for a
reduction of U.S. troops in Southeast
Asia. But his dovishness has to be
qualified. McGovern only supports
certain demonstrations against . the war.
every time they get together," he said the
other day. "They aren't really conscious
of doing it anymore. It's a reflex action.
What about this bill to revoke funding
for the Tar Heel? That's not their usual
thing, is it?
"Well, it is and it isn't. Sen. (Tom)
White, the guy that started the speaker
ban flap a few years ago, used to make
speeches about The Daily Tar Heel when
he was still in office, and I guess Julian -I
call all of the legislators by their first
name. I've been here longer than any of
them-thought someone ought to do
something, and he's not too good at
talking. So he drew up a bill.
"He don't really think the thing can
pass. He just wants to throw some fear of
God into them damned atheists on that
paper."
Do you mean that he's not really upset
about the homosexual thing, that he's
just doing it because he's always against
the Tar Heel?
"Something like that. If they hadn't
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that make us uniquely human. And the
rest of us follow their example.
These signs all indicate that youth
culture has begun a race toward reality, a
search for realistic images of ourselves
and our world.
The image based on our personal
experience is the building block of our
thought patterns. We see, feel or smell
through our various sense organs. These
sensations are processed by our
consciousness in bundles we will term
images, bundles which are then stored in
our memory.
Theri we develop codes, or symbols, to
make these memories easier to recall. By
remembering the word snow, for
example, we set our consciousness in
touch with a whole region of the memory
His remarks on May Day might have well
read, "Men with corporate responsibility
do not act in such a manner." When
demonstration is militant, anti-imperialist
or when it is led by communists,
McGovern denounces it as unproductive
or contrary to the interest of peace.
Although he claims to speak for peace as
well as for the interest of the Vietnamese
he has no harsh words for Esso, Chase
Manhattan or General Electric. To him
there is no conflict. He is for both the
Vietnamese and the U.S. corporations in
South Vietnam just as he is for the slum
dweller and the chairman of the board of
the Bank of America.
McGovern s Middle East stance esposes
his anti-war reputation. Is he a dove on
Southeast Asia and a hawk on the Middle
East? Maybe an albatross would better
characterize him. As President, McGovern
would get rid of Hoover and Helmes,
reform the FBI and the CIA and slap the
wrists of the Chiefs of Staff. He might
even take U.S. troops out of a few of the
sixty odd countries they are now in. But
the empire would remain and more
Vietnams could come.
One of McGovern's supporters will
probably be Allard Lowenstein who in
1968 instigated the dump Johnson
movement. Lowenstein was head of the
National Student Association supposedly
in its pre-CIA days and was elected to
Congress from New York in 1968. He
likes to think of himself as a leftish
politician working within the system.
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helped him out by printing something
about queers he'd a had to fisd
something else to get offended about. He
just likes to be indignant about things.
What about Sen. Coggin?
"That's Coggins, with an V sonny.
Don't you know nothing about Senators?
Jyles just plain don't like the idea of
women walking around in men's dorms.
It just ain't Christian, he thinks, and I
agree with him.
"If I'd been able to go to college, I'd a
wanted to spend all my time getting an
education, not running around chasing
women and drinking like them people do
now."
Do you really think the only things
students now think about are chasing
women and drinking?
"WeU, not really.
"A lot of them now are turning into
communists, and this visitation thing isn't
keeping them on the side of God and the
U.S. of A. I think Jyles' bill will be a
good thing. Itll keep all them people,
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which houses old images of snow flakes,
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Ideas are born about our world as we
associate one image of our experience
with another and discover new
relationships, new comparisons we hadn't
noticed before. And from these ideas,
these conceptual relationships between
the various facets of our existence, we
develop beliefs, or ideas drawn from
other ideas.
The image, in this context, becomes
the building block of experience-the
basic unit of information upon which we
base our conception of the world around
us.
The history of man's early creative
activity is a record of our attempts to
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Answering a radical critic he said, "We
did change some things, we learned some
things and the fact doesn't show me that
the system doesn't work." If McCarthy or
Kennedy had been elected the system
would have worked for Lowenstein, but
not for radicals. When one is in power the
status quo becomes more acceptable. I
can see the defensive HEW Secretary
Lowenstein saying, "Didn't President
McGovern reduce our military aid to
Greece?" To the former Congressman,
the political scene is made up of bad
Republicans, bad Democrats and good
Democrats, and we should concentrate on
electing the good Democrats. Once in
power the O'Dwyers, the Kennedys etc.
will increase welfare benefits, enlarge
urban renewal programs, form a volunteer
army and repress only the most militant
communists and anarchists. America will
be closer to the liberal's ideal,
bureaucratic, tecnocratic welfare state.
McGovern is no doubt better than
happy Hubert Humphrey or homely Ed
Muskie. But in order to build a radically
different society we must reject all lesser
evil politics. We must go beyond both
bourgeois parties as well as the reformist
ADA tendencies and look to the left.
History has shown us many of the dead
ends of socialism. Wc have to learn from
the past and concentrate on finding the
best possible path to socialism, a path
that is friv Stalinism. To do nothing
politically is -quiescence to those in
power.
especially the ones in Chapel Hill,
thulins about studying ar.d getting an
education which is why they are
supposed to be there anyhow."
Do you think the legislature is going to
do anything about reorganizing higher
education this session?
"A lot of people around here hope so.
Something has got to be done. People in
Raleigh don't have enough control over
the University as the set-up is now, and
this changing things around ought to do
something about th3t.
"Chapel Hill is getting too uppity.
Those people think they are the only
University in the state, and they think
they ought to get all the money. But
that ain't so. There's other programs that
need money and other campuses that are
doing something in education besides
Chapel Hill."
There's a lot of talk that Leo Jenkins
is making all this noise about higher
education just to get publicity so he can
run for governor. Do you think there's
any truth to that?
"That's just trash made up by the
newspapers to make Leo look bad. They
know things are going to be different if
he's governor, and they're attacking him
just so he won't be able to run. They're
scared of him, and I don't blame 'em."
Why?
"Well, if Leo gets elected, the
newspapers aren't going to be able to tell
the governor what to do like they do
now."
Do you really think the newspapers
tell the governor what to do?
"A lot of them sure as hell try. Like
the News and Observer here in Raleigh.
There wouldn't be any argument over this
Bald Head Island if it weren't for them
screaming about ecology. Developing
Bald Head would be a great asset for
North Carolina. It'd attract lot of
tourists who'd bring in a lot of money,
but the newspapers don't think of that.
They just worrying about this ecology
Is ecology really "nonsense"?
"Sure is. It's like the DAR said last
year. The commies are behind it, and it's
working. Even got some of the people in
the Assembly believing in it now. I can't
believe they're doing it.
"It's coming down to a choice
between the Commies and the American
way of life competition, free enterprise
and democracy-and with this ecology
stuff, the Commies are starting to win.
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capture unique images of the world. Each
artist, each craftsman placed the stamp of
his existence on his art, describing in clay
or stone or canvas a unique view of
experience.
A view of experience forged in the
roaring silence of his individual memory;
his smell and feel and touch.
The invention of the printing press
changed things. Suddenly the symbol
grew in importance, and a new art form
- developed. Writers began painting
experience with images, drawing on the
images common to all of us to introduce
us to his life, his view of consciousness.
Still the basic unit was the image, the
personal image based on individual "real"
sensation.
And then there was television and
movies. Now most of our youth spend
two, three or four hours of each day
filling their little minds with images of
the world based on Captain Kangaroo,
Mister Rogers and Spiderman. The good
guys always win, the bad guys always lose
and all the guys are shallow as mud
puddles.
The small portion of theatre that
remains in the hands of artists continues
to paint the realistic view of experience
we all need to survive. But television has
already tainted all of us, filled our heads
with illusions designed to pacify and
somnam bulate.
Picture, for just a moment, your image
of "the perfect" man or woman for you.
Now, try to find it. Where did this picture
come from? Thousands and hundreds of
slick models on television. How many
times have you chosen someone to date
because they fit your "image," only to
find yourself lost in some maze of
made-up foolishness?
And, even worse, how many times
have you tried to force someone into that
image, straining and pushing to make
them be what you want them to be?
Young people have sensed the power
of these illusions, and instinctively
concluded that something must be done
to destroy them. Many are making
positive attempts to change the
stereotypes, to break through their
preconceptions to find each other.
But many others have simply traded
one set of illusions for another. The hair,
the jeans, the lingo -all can be a sincere
attempt to break away from the
television generation. Or they can become
another illusion prci"-ed to CTeate the
"correct" image, another pretty picture
without meaning without life.
Another suit of imaginary armor
suffocating someone inside, someone who
wants to break out and doesn't know
how. Which brings us to reaching out, our
topic next time.