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Harrv Brvan. Editor
Saturday, November 6, 1971
The Daily Tar Heel
awards of the week
I he Devil Made Me Do That
Award: to Channel 5 editorialist
J esse Holms, who commented last
v. r. on the n.-w Church of Satan
i n ("alilornia: "They'll probably be
sending missionaries to N T. State
::, 1 Chapel Hill." 'I hen he added
d rUy. "But that would be like
iuuling salt water to the ocean."'
I lie They Aren't Dick Tracy But
I heyll Do Award: to Nixon, lor
jppointinc two legal scholars to the
Supreme Court. Powell, we hear, is
the nation's loicniost authority on
leash lav.s. while Hehnqnit
1: is consistently supported Nixon's
preventive stop-and-search, no
nock and heat to-a pulp
. f inicstopper notebook tips.
1 he It s Your Fault Not Mind
ssard: to the ledera! court which
e a e t !i e A t o m ic K nergy
( on minion and the Defense
Department permissioji to go ahead
s. ,:! their tet explosion of a
:'!;.i!o!i nuJear device even
v.Liitists suspect the Circat
Lutian fault lies near the test site
..:.,! earthquakes might be triggered.
ahr Daily aar tHcrl
v )-jn ( f Editorial Freedom
Harr Bryan. Lditor
Mike Parocll Managing Kd.
Dime Hall News Editor
Leu Bonds Associate Ed.
Lana Starnes ssociate Ed.
Mark Whicker Sports Ed.
Ken Ripley .... Feature Editor
Jim Talor Niclit Editor
Bob Wilson Business Mgr
Puddi Hushes Adv. Mgr.
Ken Kipley
don
Praser is a good thing for a Christian. I
tear, however, that the proposed
Constitutional amendment t allow
"non-denominational" praser in public
buildings, particularly nhonK. is not so
good.
I he school praser controversy is
coming to a head Morulas when the U.S.
Iloue of Representatives voles on the
"pras cr amendment."
Supporters f tins .mundmcnt i a 1 1
around the cr, "l et's restore Cod to the
classrooms.'" T hey arc chafing under the
and l'X.3 Supreme Court decisions
outlawing organized and required praser
m public buildings.
I he proposed amendment is shoit.
amazingly so for our usually veibose
legislators, and reads:
"Nothing contained in this
Constitution shall abridge the rights of
persons lawfully assembled, in any public
building which is supported in whole or
in part through the expenditure of public
funds, to participate in
nondemoninational praser.
Should the "prayer amendment" gain
the two-thirds majority vote it needs to
pass, it ssill go to the Senate, where
opponents say they aren't sure it can be
stopped. From Congress, as sse all learn in
political science, it gvxs to the states tor
ratification.
Monday is therefore crucial to both
sides. If the amendment is to be killed, it
must be done in the House.
And. I feel, it should be killed. Not
only does the amendment resurrect a
whole host of questions that still need to
If California breaks off from the
rest of the United States, does that
mean Ronald Reagan is president of
the new country?
The Today's Army Wants to Join
You (and BYOL) Award: to the
Genera! Accounting Office survey,
which estimated that 130,000
members (five per cent) of the
armed services are alcoholics.
The If We Eliminate Panties.
There Won't Be Anymore Parity
Raids Award: to House members,
who rejected a proposed
requirement that colleges receiving
federal aid admit women on the
same basis as men.
The Raymond Burr Scattered
Scruples Award: to Supreme Court
nominee William H. Rehnquist,
who in his attempts to dodge
questions before the Senate
Judiciary Committee, said he could
not forsake "what 1 feel is my duty
to my client" whom lie named as
Nixon and Attorney General John
Mitchell. Maybe he can persuade
Agnew to plead the Fifth
Amendment more.
The Gangrenous Gobbler In
Every Pot Award: to U.S.
Department of Agriculture officials,
who suggested that Swift & Co. try
cooking poisonous PCB chemical
deposits out of 50,0 00
contaminated turkeys rather than
suffer an estimated $300,000 loss
by destroying them.
The Suppose They Gave An
Anti-War Program And Nobody
Came Award: to the Student
Mobilization Committee to Fnd the
War in Vietnam, who sponsored an
anti-war program Wednesday night
that attracted only 15 people.
The Beast To Soothe The Savage
Music Award: to Publications
Board Chairman Charles Gilliam,
who asked for the resignation of
WCAR's station manager Bob
Foreman, after receiving complaints
of Foreman's incompetency from
WCAR business manager Murray
Poole, who incidentally was
appointed station manager. This is
Radio Free Chapel Hill signing off.
Food: prayer amendment had
be answered about the relationship
between church and state, the bill itself is
vague and raises serious questions of its
ow n.
Tempers ran high when the Supreme
Court broke up years of traditionally
required "m orning prayer" and
devotional Bible readings. God, it was
feared, had been banned from going to
sc ilool.
'It is interesting to note." Billy
Crahain said Thursday in support of the
amendment, "that as soon as prayer was
taken out of the schools that drugs, sex
permissiveness and even crime entered the
schools. I think our young people need
some moral standards."
With all respect to Mr. Graham and to
other supporters of the prayer
amendment. I not only question his
linking of moral decline with the absence
of required praser but also this idea that
we need to "restore God" in school.
Moral decline as Graham outlines it
goes back longer than N63, and Graham
himself has outlined more reasons in the
past than lack of praser. His correlation,
made in favor of the amendment, is-the
jargon goes-spurious.
And I don't believe that God has left
the school. More accurately, the Supreme
Court, by banning organized, required
praser and instruction forced the schools
to quit tampering with God and with the
individual's religious beliefs.
Justice Felix Frankfurter, giving his
opinion in the McCollum s. Board of
I ducat ion case, wrote:
"The preservation of the community
To the editor:
From time to time we hear different
notions concerning the "Campus Ccps."
Some stories are complimentary - others
are to the contrary. The following I
experienced on Tuesday. November 4,
On Wednesday afternoon, I was told
by a doctor at the infirmary that I had an
acute case of pneumonia. By my cat.
choice I decided not to stay m the
hospital that night. The next nomine
after very little sleep I had almost fainted
once and had dizzy spells. I asked if a ca:
from the campus police could pick me up
and take me to the infirmary. Officer
Edmonds picked me up and took me to
the infirmary and Arthur Beaumont
picked me up when I was finished.
Although this was just routine duty both
men were very pleasant and went out of
their way to help.
Although most of the dizziness had
subsided 1 was still iearv
driv:
car. I decided to pick up a prescription at
the hospital that the doctor h3d given me.
I parked in the back near the ma:I
room and infirmary and was gone about
five minutes. When I returned there were
two officers there, one had just finished
writing a ticket. I explained to him that 1
had pneumonia and the condition that I
had been in that morning. His reply was,
"You better be glad you came back when
you did 'cause I was going to have :t
towed."
I left rather ar.gry believing that at
least a slight injustice had been done. The
next closest parking place was two blocks
away.
These two instances hase given me
mixed opinions concerning the campus
police. There are many good officers on
the staff of the campus police, I'm sorry
that one or two soil its reputation.
Hadley Whittemore
Data wanted
on campus food
To the editor:
I would be very interested in receiving
the following information from anyone
who feels that he has become ill as the
result of eating sandwiches supplied by
effort out -tytf.ee,. & ujy iMfi movirV - you
9oAs U, cool. -tW (orv) bypass ov,
clock l run;'&0 UVb hu !..' dmt,
from divisive conflicts, of government
from irreconcilable pressures by religious
groups, of religion from censorship and
coercion however subtly exercised,
requires strict confinement of the state to
instruction other than religious, leaving to
the individual's church and home,
indoctrination in the faith of his choice."
The Supreme Court banned only the
required devotional ceremonies found in
many schools and deliberate public
religious instruction -not the right of
individuals to pray to their God, not the
right of schools to study the Bible in
appropriate educational ways, not the
right of individuals to study and believe
in God as they wish. Students can and do
still pray in school, and groups of
students can and do still gather together
as individuals to study the Bible.
But the school can't make them pray
or study the Bible. And this separation of
the government's educational system
from the church is wise. If schools are
permitted to enter the area of religious
instruction, who is to decide which
religion? And if. as it would probably be
certain, schools were limited to
Christianity, which beliefs of which
denomination would hold sway?
I wonder if those who want to
"restore" some kind of organized
Christian influence in the schools would
be particularly happy if that influence
ultimately was countering their own
beliefs. 1 knosv I wouldn't.
The Supreme Court, in relegating
religious instruction to "'the individual's
church and home" not only put the
the Student Stores Servornaticr. Service
to the various snack bars and ether fd
facilities on the campus - particularly cn
Wednesday, November 3.
1 i Type cf sandwich eaten.
2 Date and time sandw ich was
'chased.
3 Campus food facility from which
sandwich was purchased.
4) Date and time illness began.
5 Symptoms (Please be specific: D.d
you have diarrhea. r.ausea. orr.:t:r.2.
fever, other symptoms?!
A postcard reply w :li be sufficient.
C r.thia Sn. w
23s McCa dev Street
Chapel H.11. N C.
Alumnus lauds
Dooley program
To the editor:
I have never written a letter to an
Editor before but the current football
controversy at UNC compels me to do so.
1 was a member of the student body at
UNC for seven years during the Hickey
regimen and had the opportunity to
watch several football teams that failed to
play up to their potential with the
exception of the 1963 Gator Bowl team.
This failure could be attributed to a lack
of discipline, dedication and desire on the
part of some of the players.
1 was, therefore, quite pleased when in
1966, Coach Dooley and his staff were
hired to bring winning football to
Carolina. I understand that the practices
in the spring and fall of 1(67 were very
spirited and rough which resulted in
several former squadsmen voluntarily
quitting but still keeping their athletic
scholarships. I might add, there were very
few complaints, if any, from UNC
students, alumni and faculty at that time.
In fact, his efforts were applauded. Since
that first year and every year since, the
number of dropouts have declined until
now only an insignificant number quit for
various reasons; but still keep their
scholarships if they stay in school.
There have been many improvements
since Coach Dooley's arrival to the UNC
campus. For example, the grades of the
players have greatly improved. In
burden where it belongs but also helped
clarify the separate relationship between
church and state. The prayer amendment,
if it passes, muddles that relationship all
over again.
The proposed amendment also
introduces some inherent new problems
of its own through its vagueness. As
presently stated, the amendment would
permit "nondenominational prayer" in
public buildings. But Phillip B. Kurland,
law professor at the University of Chicago
and editor of the Supreme Court Review ,
outlines tw o dangers.
Implicit in permitting
nondenominational prayer is the
possibility of refusing to permit
denominational praser as
'"constitutionally suspect." Sectarian
groups that use public buildings, such as
churches who hold Sunday services in
schools, should take note.
Secondls. as Gurland asks. "What is a
nondenominational prayer"1 Who will
frame it? What religions can accomodate
their teachings to it?" Do Christians. I
would also ask. want children to pray
something by rote so watered down to fit
all beliefs that it means nothing? That's
not praser as an individual's persona!
communication with God-that's travesty
of praser.
One benefit of this potentially ugly
debate is that both Protestant and
Catholic groups are moving Jocr
together to oppose the amendment.
Unity is always welcome whenever it
comes.
Add mv small vo:ce to theirs.
previous s ears. a rr.irv as 3 percent at d
r. ere c the frehrr.ir. f cotball team
weld flunk Out before thru s-.-phc.ee
vear. Or. the lt-Ci r. defeated freshr. ar.
team r.ot cr.e freshrr.ar. 7 las er f.ar.kcd
out. Ar other improvement I have r.cticed
is that the plavers :t:
4
therr.seSei
In clos.r.g. 1 s-rport the D le
program UO percent. Under the rr.o:
difficult situation, he a-d his staff have
built a winning program a: UNC.
Although there is reported there are seme
".-.- C i f'C r . 5"- , .
t.v-i.....S ..i 1 c g. S.i . u.c
remembered that there i not a-.v
procram conducted that ;s Perfect and
the p'.avers who have not quit and the
coaches have eh:r.rd a w.l:;rgr.v t:
work these problems out. I t r - e do
not put a great deal ..f faith and h-chef m
the Committee cf Concerned Athletes. lr.
fact, it is the.r motives which sh-, aid be
investigated sir.ee the have m.-de weral
sea r. d u 1 o us accusations.
I
or example, w 1
the practice and after the coj.hing -t.::t
was cleared of ar.s r.e giiger.ee b a
responsible committee, thev have crutllv
used the tragic death of Bill rr :d to
further their own belief and faith in the
statements of support of several former
four-year plasers such as I ns B'.an.hard
Mike Smith. Don McCuuk- and F ..p Has .
which for some strange rea-n has n.-t
received the same new-ppcr coverage as
has the dissent f the Concerned
Athletes.
If I ever have a son. 1 hope he is
fortunate enough to have the opportumtv
to play under Coach Do-.-ley for several
reasons, one of which is discipline. In the
past several sears there has been a
breakdown of discipline in all areas f
The University of North Carolina and
other schools as well with the exception
of the athletic community. UNC needs
more men with Coach Dooles 's
dedication and conviction to again instill
discipline and pride in all phases of UNC's
programs, including academic ones.
Coach Dooley and his staff deserve the
respect and support of all UNC
supporters - students, alumni,
administration, faculty and friends who
want a strong, disciplined program.
W. Sam Shaffer. II
21 W. Washington St.
Greensboro. N.C. 27401
University sinks
into mediocrity
To the editor:
The Publications Board action of
November 2 concerning WCAR and Bob
Foreman raises several fundamental
questions on student activities and the
University as a whole. Mr. Foreman
willfully dropped his student status
because he saw WCAR as the only
channel for his creative energies at UNC.
His organizational and programming
reforms sttracted others who recognized
WCAR's potentiality as a forward-looking
organization.
I have always been under the
impression that a university and its
organizations were not simply vocational
training schools, but a spawning ground
for original ideas and outlooks. Surely the
Daily Tar Heel has not become the
award-winning paper it is by training
students in how to write news stories or
hosv to set type. Our student activity fees
do not go just to teach someone to
balance a budget, or at the worst, to
teach the dirtiest aspects of the political
system. If these are indeed present
functions of student activities, then one
can only assume that it is because these
basics are not being found in the
classroom.
According to the executive budget
breakdown released this week, a large
portion of student fees are going to office
supplies, telephone calls, and postage
meters. However, an attempt for a
genuine contribution to the student body
- a quality and innovative campus radio
station - is ignored, perhaps stifled by
the Publications Board and members of
the executive office. WCAR was only
beginning to get national attention from
record companies and media
organizations. The turmoil ensuing from
the political game-playing is at best a
substantial setback.
With sadness, I view the incident as
oniy another example of this University's
sink into mediocrity. UNC mas not be an
isolated case, for many feel this decade
has already become the Stagnant
Seventies.
Randy Cnttenton
5 26 Morrison
Killing dogs is
crime to nature
To the editor:
La evening, as I walked to the library.
I noticed the numerous amount 01 dogs
that were lsmg here and there. I then
remembered something I had read that
made me wonder as to what kind of
world we are living in today. I wondered
what this campus would look like
without all of these canines who seem to
from ever, where. lunSer.rf
ir.J :rpp:r$ occasional! to receive a pi:
on the head from a pass-.-g student.
-p- i'tiC' I i d ; . ' d f d i o ' :
-ic-v-e I saw r.rt !o-. long ag. I: had
c -'- ? ; i J -a '- .- ' - -
the Ur.ted States ard the auth::;:.e
aborted all babies bom to a faro.! that
a'.reids had a eh. Id. I: is so ;m.la:
what those- so called auth.-rit.es her; -Chapel
H .11 are doing to the- p -ar.imaN
The:r term for extingu.h
d.g? i "put them to s eep." but w; .0.
k-ow that this is j rr.il wa -:'
viv :rg that the. are going to be killed
When 1 thmk of people who are a p4-t
of this crime to nature. I w order .'
car.'t be stopped w ha! pecple. who are
icateci and vi suited to o:e. a
rts;i-r.ts of Chape i H.'.'. th.r.V thev h.
the "a-thonts" to p'.as tudge and .,:
of a d o, wh s ua b oo -.-to ::
w e rid with v ' . 1 1 re rr.;"ar.s o : s - ; . ,
man' He is under the mistaken tmpres-o
that man is here to be ho u;Nt fnerd .0
that man w.'il take care : him Vc -pj!
here for a p-rpovc. a! -r.c with
brain, a pair ot ;
make the best t , ,.r lives.
U e .an !
d. g. he has t ' s;t bac
but -.f eh and that o to trv it r. h.
own. I th:rk he has -t rouh from th
start, he's
seven pop
in a Liter -t mav be s; r
h
a g
1 b!o,,j line or
that -e.e s -n nev .0 ,!
"i -nev u.or.e to the nor:
S;r.ee it ;s quite bvious that a d-.c :
i t our equal. I think something else :s
even noore b ; ois. let's sh w hou that he
is vtil! man" best 'nend .
Jenne I a lor
Airp rt R .u
Reader blasts
DTH columnist
To the editor
For the last month or s,. there h,.s
been a weekly waste of s.p i.c in the DIM
in the !or;:i of columns bs Keith
Weatherls. His feeble attempts to present
the conservative reacti-'nars ;ewp -Vtit on
campus have amctinted to little more
tfian the energetic flapping of his right
w mg.
In the list few weeks, WeitherlsN
views have been predvetablv simplistic.
Regarding the deaths of 41 inm ites and lJ
guards by the New York State Polue and
National Guardsmen at Attica, Weatherls
noted that "bleeding heart liberals" had
blamed everything but the true cause i f
the revolt: the inmates. When the N.C.
Vets for Peace advocated amnesty !-r
draft resisters and deserters opposed to
the Indochina War. Weatherly labelled lor
is it libeled'.') them as "opportunists." But
Weatherly failed to explain hove veterans,
who have served in combat m Ind ehr:a
(unlike Weatherly, who hasn't served .if
all) can be opportunistic m asl mg
amnesty for those v. h rcfu-cd to c".
SC.- .t h.Tlr H.i 1 le 1 . . - t r 1 I ll, ,1 1 .
w bo watch so. in oner.is imnlvinf in hi
-1
own sexist way. that they're i ist
feeble-minded females. Fast w-.-k
Weatherls managed to libel the entire
population of China as "Public I nern y
V".. u . . .1
.1 u i.s 1 1 v . ; e : e o . . i i ' a 1 int. i i. c
Strangled, den --need the UN
o e , . M . .. . ... I
U.S. -f w -( l.m i ' pol'c) . and dcmar.d. 1
. 1. . . ..Il l .
Man's Burden' tradition, why
1 e C
just revert to "Big Stick" diplom
, v .
"to hell with everybody e! 0." Pretty
heavy. Weatherly.
emotionalism. With little logic and a fe
l.!.,-1lVJ fl.-tr U'.-e-.k.-..l.. -.1 . .
-e.eCU'C JUCll. " I J.Iill ll ca.i Jj J ;
bluster forth and trump up
pseudo-sophisticated defense of the stat .
quo or the government's latest m t1 1 1 . e
uiiies r;e muuikres in rioni wu
fantasies, the stuff of B.ll Bo.k!e '
dreams. Ordinarily, though. Weather!,
just full of h perbole.
There are usually several 1-tters h o- 1
critical of Weatherly in the DTH aft-.
each (jf his disasters appears. B-
Weatheriy cavalierly dt-.dair.s r, rev-t
cnticism he merely ignores ho cr:t;.-
Vfritt r. t t '1 Ktv K . .. .11.
' . "e jc, ei icsi'Oiiueu i 1..
N C. Vets for Peace offer to hold an ' p.
debate on the amnesty issue.
Perhaps there is 3 construct
to.oe. vuuve viewpoint mat ecu u r.
advar.ee political debate on campus, ii
Weatherls's simplistic live certain!-.
it.
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