Ken Ripley
onil Food: witnesses of Christ
Opinions of The Daily Tar Hetl are expresseu on its editorial page. All
unsigned editorials are the opinions of the editor. Letters and columns
represent only the opinions of the individual contributors.
Harry Bryan, Editor
Saturday, September 11, 1971
Commission ralans
for
year are solid
Robert (irudy, this year's
chairman of the Student Services
Commission, explained Friday the
problems encountered by the
commission last year in renting
refrigerators. Not only were 40
refrigerators lost, he said, but many
were also damaged.
According to Grady, there were
numerous foul-ups on deadlines and
sites for returning refrigerators at
the end of the year, rental records
were poorly kept, and students
with damaged refrigerators were
still allowed to receive their damage
deposits.
After discussing the mistakes
made by last year's commission,
Grady outlined a few of the
changes he intends to make this
3J.C. prison
showing improvemen
from the Charlotte Observer
The impending elimination of
prison road gangs in North Carolina
presents the state with an
opportunity. By taking prisoners
off their non- salaried highway jobs,
the Department of Corrections can
provide them with new skills and
attitudes that will be useful after
they return to their communities.
The 1 ,600 inmates who work the
roads receive little in the way of
rehabilitation. Their
gravel-spreading, road-patching jobs
keep them and their armed guards
occupied eight hours a day, five
days a week. That leaves little time
for vocational training and
counseling.
Road gangs have hindered the
work-release program, one of the
best that North Carolina has for
prisoners. About 1,200 of the
state's approximately 10,000
prisoners currently receive
work-release privileges. This enables
them to hold paying jobs during the
day, returning to prison at night.
The work-release prisoner can learn
new skills while earning money for
his family or for his future.
But because State Highway
Commission road quotas have to be
met, about 700 fully qualified
inmates presently cannot get
work-release privileges. In July,
1073, when all road gangs will have
been eliminated, the quotas will be
gone and the work-release program
can be expanded. But that, in itself,
will not be enoiich.
7S Years of Editorial Ereedom
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Patti Hughes Adv. Mgr.
year, such as major alterations in
the commission's record-keeping
system and a new policy on damage
deposits.
Also, he said, students with
permits to rent or purchase
refrigerators will be forced to get
one, rather than being allowed to
waste a permit another student
could use.
Though minor problems were
encountered this fall during
distribution of refrigerators,
Grady's plans seem sound and
should provide more profits for
Student Government that can be
placed in other student activities.
It should also provide a system
that will be as fair as possible to the
student body.
program
Many prisoners who now work
the roads will not be eligible for
work-release. The state will have to
provide new programs, new prison
industries and less-crowded
facilities for them. The state also
will have to teach prison officials to
work as counselors and program
directors instead of simply as
guards. In addition, talented new
people will be needed.
These changes will require more
money for salaries, facilities and
programs at a time when the
Department of Corrections w ill be
losing about S2.4 million a year
that the Highway Commission now
pays in exchange for road-gang
labor.
The 1971 General Assembly
justifiably authorized the prison
system to get rid of road gangs. The
1973 legislature will have to be
prepared to follow through with
financial support for the changes
that will have to come next.
Letters to the
ystem9s faults
To the editor:
While reading the August 31 issue of
the Daily Tar Heel, an article entitled,
"Working through the system has its
fallacies," struck me with interest. It
seems
the situation more closely.
A fallacy is generally termed as a
falsehood. It may be that the best word
to be placed at the end of the title should
be "faults." Though the system is run
with errors, the responsibility of these
errors lies with those who have used and
abused the system, rather than the system
itself.
Moreover, the system, or any system
written on paper may be ideal, but a
wrench is usually thrown in the works
when imperfect human beings utilize it.
This includes, in different incidences,
those people in office as well as those
who elected these people to office.
Mr. Hill states a desire to vote the
"bad guys out of office." It should be
made clear as to exactly what a "bad
guy" constitutes. In addition, he failed to
state that the person elected to office is a
reflection upon those who elected him.
Thus it is more important to seek a
capable leader for a chosen position,
rather than to merely shove a person out
of office for a place-holder.
Mr. Hill is also quick to label a person
a "coward" should he he "afraid to alter
our way of doing things." Sometimes it is
more wise to keep things as they are and
to have patience with the problems at
hand. There is no doubt that if there is a
real need for change and is for the
betterment of those concerned, then that
change is needed. Change for the mere
sake of change usually results in nothing
more than confusion.
In his fourth point. Mr. Hill Mates that
belief of the ykm is basically
undemocratic. Make it known that there
Yesterday rnomir.g :r. 3 speech clii.
while the rest of us were making ou;
urual contributions to mankind's font of
insight and knowledge, one student
delivered an unusually frank speech on a
statement of Paul's.
"I can do all things in Christ who
strengthens me," he quoted, and then he
went on to say how much Jesus Chnst
had strengthened him. His was a short
speech, quickly given, but I was
impressed not only by bus sincerity but
also by this courage. It was. after all, a
speech class and not the expected pulpit.
But he wasn't afraid to say what he
thought, and by so doing he managed to
show up - by contrast - the too Urge
number of '"silent Christians' on campus.
'Let your Light so shine before men.
that they my see your good works and
give glory to your Father who is in
heaven," Jesus exhorted and later his
apostles did just that. They upset the
mora! and intellectual complacency of
many a town, but the early Christians -inspired
by the power of their Gospel -made
an impace. 'These men who have
turned the world upside down," they
were called.
The modern world has managed to
nght itself and get in an incredible mess
while Christians remain mute.
Not all Christians are quiet, of course.
And, fortunately, more are coming out of
their steepled sheels. But if the Gospel we
believe in has any meaning and relevance
to the world around us, it doesn't belong
in a cloister, some "holy huddle." It
belongs on the campus, in the home, in
the "marketplace," on Capitol Hill.
Christians have been entrusted with a
powerful message, not to hide it in
embarrassment but to proclaim and
practice it in life.
But do we? If the Church is ignored, is
it because the world doesn't need some
"good news," or is it because the world
has grown tired of waiting for Christians
to say and practice something worth
believing
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editor
is a lack of any system for any type of
free expression.
People should not resent the fact that
"decisions over people's daily lives are
made by the elite." If such a
responsibility were to be placed in the
hands of each individual it would take
only a few people who care only for
themselves to realize the definite need for
a leader to bind them together.
I am baffled by Mr. Hill's solution to
the problem of improving education. It
seems from his writing that a negative
attitude should bring positive results;
such as "refusing to go along with the
dictums of the administration." The
question if posed; does disagreement
constitute apathy?
Finally, it may amaze Mr. Hill to
realize that "the system" has give him the
right to speak out against it.
For that alone, "the system" deserves
much credit.
Respectfully
Paul Myers'
534 Hhrinchaus
Georgia student
hits tuition hike
To the editor:
Ejch year 1 have been accustomed to
returning to school and finding the Daily
Tar Heel rightfully or wrongfully bitching
about something. I must admit that up to
now I have remained pretty nuuh
removed from the controversies raging
within the cover pages of your paper.
The existential philosophy that sees
man as a product of chance in a world of
chaos is one that makes us despair. If
there is no solid truth, if there is ultimate
meaning
i in life, if there is no
va;u
have
to be placed on being human, we
no hope. Quite logically, many
existential philosophers find their beliefs
lead to absurdity and suicide as the only
exits, but they yearn for hope. The Bible
says man has value and can Live a full Lie,
that man does have hope. If Christians
cannot prove this is true, by word and
deed, why should others believe us0
Materialists Live out their lives on a
one-dimensional plane, concerned only
with the politics of man. the good works
of man. The Bible stresses not only the
need for a practical application of faith in
Life around us. with all the concern for
the social and political ills we can muster,
but also the need for radically complete
moral and spiritual transformation. If
Christians can't demonstrate in their own
lives this transformation, or if we don't
bear witness to it, why should we expect
people to respond to what we say?
Evans Witt
Chapel Hill a company town
Many North Carolina towns were
born, prospered and died with the
opening of a large textile mill which
completely dominated the political, social
and economic life of the people of the
town.
These "company towns" experienced
many problems, not the least of which
was the lack of any other forces to
counter the overwhelming influence of
the company in all the affairs of the
people.
In short, the company could do
exactly as it pleased in the town.
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are those of the voters
Now however, I feel compelled to throw
in my own personal little bitch about a
subject that has been overshadowed by
more pressing problems to the student
body, and consequently all but forgotten.
A recent cartoon in your paper sums it up
pretty well. I refer specifically to the
drawing depicting the two out-of-state
students being blown down the highway
by a storm cloud representing the
legislators of the state.
Upon arriving home, (Atlanta, Ga.) in
late August from some travels, I was
greeted by the announcement of a tuition
hike affecting only out-of-state students.
This hike boosted the already
disproportionate differential between in
and out-of-state student tuition from
SI 000 to S2200 per academic year, with
an additional S1000 hike promised for
the school year 1972-73. Note that the
figures cited above are merely the
differential figures. Note also that this is a
helluva lot of money.
An in-state student cannot possibly
grasp the feeling of shock and panic
which engulfs one faced with the
proposition of raising an extra SI 200 for
tuition in less than a month, or transfer
or worst yet dropping out. Luvkily, I
personally did not have to forfeit this, my
junior year at Carolina. Next year
however, is still questionable.
I find it hard to believe that more of
this matter has not been discussed in your
editorials. I do realize, however, that the
more immediate blunders of this school's
admissions board and traffic department
do warrant more attention than an act of
the legislature committed almost two
months ago which affects such a small
percentage of the student body. I would
hope however, that once the present
issues become merely mounds ot ink tiled
by the university and others, that this
matter of the untimely tuition hike
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campus have a
two-fold responsibility if e have my
faith at all m our "Gospel." First. e
have to share our futh. If e believe that
God is real and active m our Irvts. that He
does make a difference, we should be able
to say so. "Go home to your trends, and
tell them how much the Lord has done
for you. and how he has had mercy on
you." Jesus said.
To talk about Jesus doesn't mean. I
would hope, that Christians go around
campus preaching and button-holmg
friends at eery opportunity. God isn't a
product to be sold. Christians ire
witnesses, not lawyers, and a common
sense is a virtue most of us need to
cultivate. But. as Peter writes, "Always be
prepared to make a defense to any one
who calls you to iccoxxr.t for the hope
that is m you. yet do it wi:h gentleness
and reverence."
If all we do is speak, however, we
should shut up. The Christian "good
news" is not just good news for those
who aren't Christian, it's for Christians
who believe it. Unless our lives reflect the
Chapel Hill is a modern edition of the
company town.
The University makes plans, increases
enrollment, and extends the sprawl of
campus without consulting or in many
cases even informing the town of the
developments.
Town officials often hear of the
construction of a new building or a
projected increase in the enrollment of
the University when the Tar Heel or other
local nes media reports it.
The town is thus limited in its ability
to plan in any way for the provision of
services to the more than 20.000
students, faculty and staff who run the
giant "educational factory" known as
UNC-CH. The planning department of the
town cannot make provision for new or
wider streets to accommodate increased
traffic if the university does not give
them the information on the projected
location of buildings and parking lots
necessary to make traffic flow estimates.
In fact, the complicated and
comprehensive zoning ordinance which
governs "all" construction in Chapel Hill
barely effects University building plans at
all.
For many years, the University has
been permitted to locate any of its
buildings or enterprises any place in
Chapel Hill, regardless of the zoning of
the land. For example, much of the
North Campus was, for many years,
zoned primarily for single family
residences on lots bigger than 10.000 sq.
feet.
This absurd situation in relation to
zoning was well illustrated last fall when
the recently completed Health Affairs
Library was begun on Columbia Street.
According to the zoning ordinance, the
building was far too close to the street.
Some of the town's alderman became
upset at this violation and tried to have
construction stopped. But they failed.
Last spring the town amended its
against out-of- state students will come to
life within the DTH.
Not only is this tuition hike singularly
discriminatory, unfair, and very possibly
unnecessary; I feel that the very legality
of the legislators act should be contested
if possible in court. I am sure more
out-of-st3ters would agree with me if our
numbers were not so dramatically
reduced.
My thanks,
Tim Epperson
100 Airport Rd.
Political column
unfair analysis
To the editor:
As a freshman and newcomer to the
University, I had hoped that the editorial
columnists of THE DAILY TAR HEEL
would address themselves openly,
realistically, and fairly to the major issues
of American politics. In this aspect, Mr.
Keith Weatherly's article. "We can not
look to Democrats," was a great
disappointment.
His analysis of "the Vietnam tragedy"
is singularly simplistic. Few, if any,
thinking Americans blame President
Nixon tor starting the conflict; nor do
they deny that he is, in his own way,
"winding down the war." What they do
object to are the speed and manner tn
which he is ending our involvement. What
they do object to are the attempted
cover-ups of the Vietnamese election
farce and hints by Melvin Laird that
approximately 50.000 American troops
will remain in Southeast Asia after
Vietnamization. In light of the McCarthy
and McGovern candidacies, the Mansfield
amendment to the pending draft bill, and
Christians
quality of the "lht" withm us. unless w;
show that e are moved to action by :h?
many ills and injustices around us, e car
in3 should be dismissed just as Jrsu;
blasted the Jewish authorities of his dr.
'The scribes and the Pharisees sit or.
Modes' seat. he told the crowds. .
practice and observe whatever they te".
you, but not what they do For the
preach, but do not practice. They bind
heavy burdens, hard to bear, and la.
them on men's shoulders, but th;
themselves will not move them with the -j-fmger.
If we don't live as we preach,
we're hypocrites, too. And oj
Chnstianity will be suspect.
"Little children," John wTote. "Let u
not love in word or speech but m dec-J
and in truth." Such love gives our word
meaning. Our worJs withou:
demonstrable love are meaningless.
"We are ambassadors for Chnst." Fau
told the Corinthians. "God making h:v
appeal through us."
Christians on this campus .in
ambassadors, too.
zoning ordinance to give the town some
influence over future expansion-hut onl
in one, very limited area. The zoning
ordinance now includes provisions which
require the University to eek approval
from the town in the form of a zoning
change if the University seeks to expand
its "industrial" facilities such as the
laundry operations or the steam plant.
But the University can still buy land
and expand any portion of its academic
or research facilities without so much as
telephoning the town's officials.
Since the University is an agency oi
the state, it enjoys many exemption's
from local laws and. most importantly, it
cannot be taxed.
In past years, however, the University
has agreed to make a "voluntarv
contribution" to the town's budget to
compensate the town in part for the
services the University receives. In
1970-71, the University contributed more
than $137,000 to the town's budget.
This year the University will not
increase its contribution to the town
finances, although the town's expenses
have risen and an increase in the
contribution was requested by the town
Although Vice Chancellor Joe Laglcs
would not comment on the reasons for
denying the increase, perhaps the
University was justified in denying any
further increase in its contributions.
In any case, the town must now cut
some $20,000 from its budget to make
up for the smaller than expected
University contribution. Some services
will have to be reduced as the town once
again has been caught in a squeeze.
The University and the town of Chapel
Hill have a unique oppurtunity to
cooperate to improve the quality of life
here. Petty differences and pride have
brought about traffic jams, poorly
developed areas of the town and financial
problems.
It's time to cooperate past time.
calls by other prominent Democrats for
immediate withdrawal, Mr. Weatherly's
remark that "Richard Nixon and his
Republican administration will bring us
out of Vietnam, not the Democrats" can
only be viewed as a rather amazing
oversight.
Similarly, such sweeping, unsupported
generalizations as "historically the
Democratic Party has been the party of
war, of a tangled foreign policy, and of a
strained economy" must be attributed to
an astounding political naivete on Mr.
Weatherly's part.
Finally, I question Mr. Weatherly's
fairness and journalistic
conscientiousness. Specifically, to group a
discussion of "clinched fist marches,"
"obscene slogans," and students "armed
with little more than a few bricks and a
vocabulary of dirty words" with a
supposed, analysis of the Democratic
Party ts a blow below the belt. I'm v;rry,
but I believe you're just prejudiced. Mr.
Weatherly.
Sincerely,
John Byer!y
4 1 1 Momvjn
Night cyclists
need reflectors
To the editor:
May I join in on the letters on bicycles
too? Please, will all night bicycle riders
get lights and reflectors or reflecting
strips on their bikes? Let's not have sorr.e
serious accidents or a death before
bicycle riders take the responsibility to
make themselves visible to automobile
drivers.
Sincerely yours.
June C. Allcott (Mrs. J.V.)
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