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Harry Bryan, Editor
Tuesday, May 11, 1971.
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A new organization has been
formed on the UNC campus in an
effort to unify other student groups
in and out of Student Government.
Called the Campus Coordinating
Council, the new organization is
composed of the presidents or
chairmen of the Interfraternity and
Pan Hellenic councils, YWCA,
YMCA, Association of. Women
Students, Residence College
Federation, Black Student
Movement, student body, Graduate
and Professional Student
Federation, Carolina Union and
Men's Residence Council, as well as
the editor of The Daily Tar Heel,
the vice-president of the student
body and the student attorney
general.
; The council is badly needed if
students are to present a unified
voice concerning University policy
and if students are to work together
to achieve common goals.
At present a number of student
groups exist on the UNC campus,
working separately with little or no
interaction.
Many are working toward the
Send parents a letter;
beat the Pos t Office
Written home lately?
If you haven't better do it
quickly. Time is fast running out.
After this week, writing home
won't be as easy as it used to be.
And we're not talking about
exams coming up next week-that's
a subject best avoided in the spring.
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Cliff Kolovson
"Dave, never in the histdry of the
9000 series computer has there been a
mistake."
"Hal," the computer
in "2001 : A Space Odyssey"
We now have computer football and
computer fights for the heavyweight
boxing championship of the world but
can you see a computer war?
Computer use in the Vietnam war is
already a strong reality as it has been for
a number of years.
And computer usage is getting out of
hand with the ABM. Not one prominent
computer scientist has yet stated that the
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same goals but are ineffective due
to a lack of strength.
However, if representatives of
these groups can v come together
once or twice a month during the
school year, effective programs can
be undertaken with all
organizations working together.
The council could also prove to
be strong in petitioning for change
in University policies.
At present Student Legislature is
the most representative group on
campus. But due to lack of unity in
the body and the fact that UNC
administrators often disregard its
resolutions, SL has little power
outside of Student Government,
However, since members of the
council represent organizations
encompassing almost every student
in the University, administrators
would listen whenever thz council
took a unified stand on an issue.
The concept of the Campus
Coordinating Council is sound, and
the success of the council is badly
needed if students are to work
together to improve student life at
UNC.
The point about writing a letter
home this week is that the price of
stamps is going up again.
Starting Sunday it'll cost eight
cents to send home a note saying,
"Hi, Mom and Dad, I'm alive and
well in Chapel Hill and out of
money again."
Eight cents.
And that's for the normal first
class letter.
If you're desperate and need
money from home fast, air mail will
cost 1 1 cents.
And if you're really broke and
can't afford anything but a
postcard, chances are you might
have to borrow a penny to pay the
six cents the Post Office will, be
charging next week.
The Post Office Department is
claiming the rate increase is needed
to help the department break even
financially, but speculation in many
newspapers is that the whole thing
is a Republican plot to get rid of
the Democrats on the postage
stamps.
After all, FDR was replaced on
the six-cent stamp by Ike,
wholesome Smile and all.
Kennedy is being taken off the
airmail stamp.
Next thing you know Herbert
Hoover and Warren Harding will be
smiling frpm the. morning mail.
Oh well, anything but Spiro
Agnew.
computer guidance system for the ABM
will work.
Our technology has become more
complex mostly due to wartime needs.
Unfortunately warfare and its causes have
become proportionately complex.
A team of researchers at the University
of Michigan has undertaken a massive
statistical study. The purpose of the
study is to discover which characteristics
and actions of nations and men tend to
lead to international war.
The "Correlates of War" project,
according to Dr. J. David Singer, a
political scientist at the Ann Arbor
campus and director of the study, is an
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Ther are probably five hours every
week spent walking to and from classes,
walking to dinner, walking through
errands. It is most interesting to me to
spend this time contemplating people and
faces. Some faces, of course, are
impossible to see because of the various
fashions of hair which cover them.
Occasionally one can see a sneaky-looking
smile peering through a beard and
mustache. Other faces you can't see
because of one peculiar angle of the
head namely, toward the feet. (I always
thought feet were uninteresting," or, at
most, ugly.)
But the faces most difficult to see are
those angled straight ahead, covered with
a mask of nothingness. Sometimes I think
people practice putting on faces which
reveal nothing, not even boredom. Blank
faces and clouded eyes and lazy mouths
(it takes effort to smile and to frcwn).
There are several different kinds of
patterned plots which occur every time
one travels down a sidewalk. If one thinks '
about them, they are peculiar, funny and "
sad-all at the same time.
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two different dormitories and was able to V'
visit others.
Danish dormitories, with only two y
exceptions I can think of, are co-ed. That
is, males and females live in adjoining
rooms, on the same hall, and the number
of men and women is as equal as possible
Some of these are private, some run by?
the town, or district of a city, some are
run by the universities themselves. ' "
The dormitories are divided into
"corridors", each of which has between
10 and 20 residents, living in single .
rooms, who share a kitchen, which is the
social center for the whole corridor. The
kitchen has ample cooking area,
refrigerator space for all, and separate
cupboard space for each resident which
can be locked. In some dorms the kitchen
is equipped with dishes and pots and
pans, in others, students furnish their
own dishes.
The rooms, as I have said, are all
singles. In some dorms, each room has
private bath; in some, bath and toilet are
shared with the next-door neighbor, who
isn't necessarily of the same sex; in some,
attempt to construct what he calls an
"applied science of war prevention."
It has attracted wide attention among
scholars and has just been awarded a
S 14l.000 grant from the National
Science Foundation to continue its work
for another four years.
"We do research to get rid of sewage,
reduce air pollution and build better
bridges. What makes us think we do not
.need to understand what really causes
war it's clearly something more
complicated than the absence of good
will." said Dr. Singer.
After seven years of work the project
has identified for study and statistically
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Plot number one
On campus are pathways which merge
at angles varying from zero and ten
degrees (those sidewalk makers around
, Polk Place go crazy with those bricks)to
45 degrees to. the old-fashioned right
angle. The 45-degree forks sometimes
.blend together to go in one direction. The
characters in this plot are two students,
each walking on a separate fork toward
the common pathway. The crisis occurs
when the two strangers suddenly find
themselves walking side by side. The most
common reaction is io ignore each other,
each pretending he is involved in a world
other than that of the disastrous
sidewalk. Sometimes a person is acutely
aware of the Other Person and worries
the whole time they are walking. A good
cop-out ' to employ in handling this
situation is to slow down one's walk and
thus set oneself up for that old sin of
being late for a class. Or if one has long
legs and a brisk stride, he can ixy speeding
and passing that Other Person.
Occasionally some person will try a
different strange way to react to the given
situation: a smile and a self-introduction.
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bath and toilet, one for each sex, are
provided for the entire corridor.
Since there is a kitchen with each
corridor, most students eat there.
Sometimes the entire corridor gets,
together for food, rotating cooking for
the entire group. Or else a smaller group
does the same, maybe only once or twice,
a week.'
There are also numerous parties
involving the corridor. Whenever a Danish
student has something to celebrate, like a v
birthday, end of exams, engagement, etc.,
he has to buy a case of beer for his
corridor. Corridor meetings also involve
the purchase of a case of beer, which of
course leads to a party. Occasionally the
corridor gets together for a banquet,
which may involve a long line of tables
down the hall, or else in the kitchen.
Afterwards there is dancing, and finally a
midnight snack of sandwiches and coffee.
Usually one person in the corridor is
designated as "beer man". He is
responsible for keeping a supply of beer
and soft drinks in-the kitchen, which
residents pay for as they use them.
In most such dormitories there are also
small apartments for married students.
There have even been small children
predaciL war amiCL.
described 93 international wars fought in
the 150 years between the end of the
Napoleonic period in 1816 and the very
recent past, 1965. x
From this has emerged a
computer-generated statistical handbook,
entitled 'The Wages of War," soon to be
published by John Wiley and Sons.
Eventually it is hoped that it will be
possible to detect behavioral patterns
associated with war.
Singer hopes to compare the
behavioral sequence in 50 conflicts that
led to outright war to 50 similar conflicts
that did not. to determine if there are
some critical behavior patterns that cause
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Plot number two
What happens when you see someone
ahead walking toward you and you don't
particularly wish to see this person or
heshe always talks too long or you're
walking with someone you don't want
heshe to see you with? If you're carrying
books, you can hunch your head over
them or hold them strangely beside your
head like a horse's blinder. You can duck
behind a building, tree or tall person. If
you're wearing a hat, pull it down over
your face. The best trick, however, is to
walk along unseeing, and when you're
just approaching the subject, decide to
look to the right at the scenery or look at
the back of your heel as if you were
having problems with it.
Plot number three
Ahah! There ahead of you is someone
you are just dying to talk with. Heshe is
walking briskly to some unknown
destination and you're walking as fast as
you can but you can't seem to catch up.
There are three alternatives. .You can run
or skip to catch up, as passers-by wonder
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brought up in these dormitories, being
cared for by their "large family".
A similar system could be set up at
UNC. The main thing would be to
convert one room per floor into a large
kitchen. This would be useful even if the
halls themselves weren't co-ed. On South
Campus, it would not be too difficult to
have floors co-ed, probably keeping one
sex per suite. On North Campus, the
privacy problem is greater, of course, but
the situation wouldn't be any different
from those Danish dorms with bathrooms
for the entire hall. Some dorms could of
course be set aside for all women and all
men, in case some students don't like
such an arrangement.
I rather think that this living
arrangement would become popular, so
that the University wouldn't have such
difficulty renting out dorm
rooms thereby easing the housing
situation in town perhaps. It provides
most of the conveniences of an apartment
with the further conveniences a
dormitory provides: ready-made social
life, proximity to campus, etc.
Residents from the same corridor are
all good friends, in a rather family sort of
way. There is very little dating between
armed conflict to be avoided.
This could be essential to our
prevention of conflict such as the present
Vietnam situation. Knowing the reasons
people fight one another could help guide
our actions in the struggle to end the war.
The idea is very noble and the theory
might be sound but how much do we let
the computer control? How much trust
do we place in the computer to solve the
problem?
Football and boxing are just games. If
you put two teams on the football field
(all other variables, i.e. weather, the
same) or the two boxers in the ring it
does not necessarily work out like the
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what could be so urgent. Or you can take
a short-cutting route in crd;r to intercept
your friend. Or you can ysll the person's
name. However, the most frustrating
thing is to yell and have everyone hear
except the person whose attention you
are trying to gain. I hnve seen many a"
person blush with embarassmer.t about
this mishap.
Plot number four
The walkway is relatively
unpopulated. In the distance you see a
friend. Your eyes meet as you notice each
other at the same time. Now, big
decision. Should you wave, yell hello or
smile and keep walking until you get
close enough to exchange your niceties?
This type of scene always reminds me of
that old Clairol commercial, picturing
two lovers running with the grace of
gazelles (i.e. in slow motion) as a voice
says romantically, 'The closer you get,
the better she looks."
Plot number five
This is the most embarassing of all.
Worse than having to walk beside
someone you don't know (as in plot
number 1) is having to walk beside
someone you do know but not very well.
Making conversation for a 10-minute
walk is very difficult, when it's with a
mere acquaintance. The old standbys
about the weather, the dull class you're
going to, did you go to Jubilee, friends in
common, the ridiculous amount of work
you've got to do, etc. get worn out in
about two minutes. The other eight is
usually and unfortunately spent in
silence. What a waste.
The tragedy is that you might have
turned that mere acquaintance into a
friend.
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members of the same corridor, which
would seem almost incestuous. 1 think
"promiscuity" is probably reduced
because of this living arrangement. In
Denmark students are accustomed to
meeting members of the opposite sex in a
very informal, homelike situation, rather
than through the artificuality of a blind
Saturday night date. People seem to pick
their dates more carefully, so that it often
happens that they have not dated many
different people before they start dating
the one who eventually becomes their
spouse. There is very little "dating
around" and very little casual sex. (The
girl, as a rule, pays her own way on a
date.)
One further thing. Most of the
dormitories I have seen had a coop
grocery store connected with them, so
that students could buy most of their
food supplies there. Such a store is sorely
needed on South Campus, also for the
residents of Odum and Victory Villages.
Couldn't some arrangement be made in
Chase Cafeteria to solve this problem?
Dormitories such as I have described
are to be found not only in Denmark but
all over Europe from Helsinki to Madrid.'
Certainly American students are no less
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computer predicts.
Many football coaches have told their
players, "No matter how great you are,
anyone can beat you on any given day."
There are so many emotional,
psychological and physical variables
involved that the result is almost
unpredictable.
Human behavioral -tterns toward war
can work the same way. If we give the
computer too much responsibility in our
society could it turn against us as in the
motion picture "2001"?
Perhaps- the computer can find the
answers, but then again it could end it
all . . .