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Opinions of The Daily Tax Heel art expressed 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 Monday, November 15, 1971 Indent silenced Are college students consumers in the academic community? Or are they merely participants who have been given the "privelege" of attending this University, participants whose only role is. to sit back and follow the regulations that they have had little vo.i-o in bringing about, participants who have no rights on campus despite the fact that it is they who are paying professors to teach them and that it is they who finance services run by others. Evidently, the Faculty Council believes the latter, as it proved Friday when it refused to accept the recommendations presented to it by the Committee on Student Involvement in University Administrative Structures. The faculty did accept the recommendation that a Campus Forum be set up to provide a means for students to present any grievances to the Chancellor, but that board, if given final approval by the Chancellor, will have no power in University decision-making. The faculty passed the recommendation that students be given more power on administrative and departmental boards. But only after it deleted every mention of ways to insure that will actually get representation. The council also sent back to committee a recommendation that the Office of Student Affairs be restructured and that a governing board -composed of 10 students, 10 faculty members and the dean and associate dean of student 7S Years of Editorial Freedom Harry Bryan, Editor Mike Parnell Managing Ed. Doug Hall News Editor Lou Bonds Associate Ed. Lana Starnes .... Associate Ed. Mark Whicker Sports Ed. Ken Ripley .... Feature Editor Jim Taylor Night Editor Bob Wilson Business Mgr. Paddi H ughes Adv. Mg. Gerry Cohen Ol o e T (LlYll. Only 100 miles from here, in rural Pitt County, a series of civil rights protests has seen over 750 arrests since the Aug. 6 shooting of a black laborer by a white highway patrolman. The situation has been almost ignored in the state press, and perhaps the arrest of 25 UNC students, most of them white, on Friday evening, will bring the news home to the state that something must be done in Pitt. To begin with, the Governor must immediately remove from office the police departments of Ayden and Farmville, the jail officials at Farmville, the sheriffs office of the county, and the highway patrol contingent at Ayden starting with Billy Day, who started the trouble three months ago. On August 6, Patrolman Day says lie arrested William Murphy for drunkeness. Murphy attacked Day in the patrol car, whereupon Day shot Murphy in the Fig voices asain affairs-be established to run the facilities financed by students. Aside from the formation of the Campus Forum, which was probably the least important of all the committee's proposals, the council completely turned down the committee's idea of making the University a "joint venture" between students and administrators. And, indeed, if the University is to function as smoothly as possible and become a totally worthwhile experience for students, it must be a "joint venture." One example listed by the committee concerned the hiring and firing of professors. Certainly, only the heads of an academic department can judge whether or not a given professor has the necessary educational background to teach a course; if students were capable of doing it, there would be no need for a university in the first place. However, only the students themselves know whether a given professor is doing his job, whether he is a capable lecturer, whether he can maintain students' interest in his course, whether he is indeed relaying the knowledge he possesses to the students in his class. The Faculty Council evidently doesn't believe this to be true. At least they're unwilling to insure that students will have such a voice. Another crucial area is the Office of Student Affairs and the departments and services under it. It is the student body that funds (from student fees) the Student Health Service, the Student Union, the student judiciary system and the residence hall system. And because it is their money that runs these facilities, students should have at least 50 per cent representation on all boards that directly govern them. However, the Faculty Council must believe that students should merely give their money to the University and have such facilities run entirely by administrators who don't live in residence halls, who don't use the Student Health Service, who rarely frequent the Student Union and who have little to do with student courts. No one will probably ever know if the council's decision was made because of fear for their jobs (they would be forced to relate to students and serve them if the recommendations passed), because of pressure from South Building or just because they don't believe students should be consumers. Whatever their reason, however, the decision was a great disservice to the academic community. .ht distwbaiices stomach, handcuffing him. Murphy was dead on arrival at a nearby hospital. According to all the other witnesses at the coroner's inquest. Murphy was not drunk, was arrested on a minor charge, and was handcuffed with his hands behind his back before he was put in the patrol car. Day did not offer a defense at the inquest, but was found not responsible. No magistrate in the county would issue any warrants against Day. nor warrants against any of the white people who continued to harrass, intimidate and insult blacks over the next two months. The city of Ayden. where the murder occured, slapped an ordinance down, forbidding parading without a permit, then refused to grant any permits to black. By Nov. 10. there hail been 700 arrests. l.ast Wednesday, oraniers eaiiii to by I.2K3 Stzn-.ci and Dr. Takey Cn t There are many laws in. North Canlm.a that are vague or totally unfamihar t: residents of the state. Mar.;, you:: fir d are pretty wild and antiquated. while others are reasonable sound Here are just a few of the criminal la -as. listed under Arti.de 26. Offenses a;nt Public Morality and Decency. Chapter 14. of the General Statutes of North Carolina as amended 1969. 14-177. Crime against nature.- If person shall committ the crime aga.r.-t nature, with mankind or beast, he shall hi guilty of a felony. ar.J shall be fine J or imprisoned in the discretion of the court. 1 4-1 SO. Seduction.-If any man -hai: seduce an inno.er.-.e and virtuous woman under promise of marriage, he shall ve fined or imprisoned at the discretion cf the court, and may be imprisoned in the State prison not exceeding the term i f five years: Provided, the unsupported testimony of the woman shall not he sufficient to convict: Provided further i 0 trod ucn, 3 "Hit two yupe.r freaks -- ERVATION AND arid oli, tohat 3 lovely combination one s a -forrrief Stfrt, J one ha Evans Wit I Students The Faculty Council tossed out a few minor sugar treats Friday to students who desire some voice in the control of their academic life and of their life on campus. The faculty benevolently recommended establishment of a campus forum where students can air grievances. Of course, such a body would have no administrative or policy power to act on such grievances. They also kindly endorsed the principle of student involvement in curriculum decisions and in faculty appointments and promotions-but slashed from the recommendations any guidelines to insure student opinions would be sought or heard. Just as importantly, the Faculty Council sent back to committee a proposal which would have given students a significant voice in the administration of the dormities, the student health service and the Student Union. Crying "an administrative anomaly" and "too easy access to the Chancellor," the faculty refused to recommend that these three agencies be taken out from under the control of the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs. It refused to support the establishment of a half-student, half-faculty board to set policies for the agencies and with direct access to the chancellor, without the necessity of working through the Student Affairs office red tape. The faculty probably was right in saying the new board would have caused some problems-but not necessarily because it would be administratively unworkable. Chapel Hill to publicize the disturbances, and 25 students agreed to go to Pitt. Late Friday night, 44 persons, including the 25. left a black church in Ayden and began walking (on a dirt sidewalk) to the Ayden postoffice in order to mail a letter to Governor Scott demanding an investigation into the deteriorating situation. Fifteen policeman then systematically arrested the 44, who had linked arms, black and white together, as they were peacefully marching. None of the 44 were told anything by police, indeed they were never at any time told that they had been placed under arrest. According to one Chape! Hill student, the police were limited to a one word vocabulary, the word "disgusting" (referring to blacks and whites being together). Taken before a magistrate, bjil was set that marriage between the parties shal. be a bar to further p::-ecut:: 14-1 SI. Mbcetrtation.-.V.! marriages between a white person and necr?. :: o descent to the third eer.eraf.cn be vo:d. Any per-cn : elating this secf.m hall be guilty of an infamous cr.rne. and shall be punished by imprisonment in the , -. i .r rr.vo than four months nor more than. ten. years, and may also be fired. :n the discretion of ihe court. 14-1S4. Fornication and adultery. -If any man and woman, not being married to each other, shall lewdly and lasciviously associate, bed and .ohabit together, 'they sha'l be gu.lt of a misdemeanor: Prov ided. that the admissions or vor.leions of one shall not be received m evidence against the -ther. Any person violating any prov iion of this section shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars, imprisonment for not more than six months, or both. M if ! ro Airborne, mc a -frewn Vitisboro TetVv you'll btSseJn' ttem ajtfiv- given little poiver The board would have caused problems for administrators because the students would have been able to control the organizations they fund and which are for their benefit. The students would be able to direct these originations for the greatest benefit of all students, rather than for the purposes of some University administrators. But the original proposals on Student Affairs office of the Committee on Student Involvment in University Administrative Structures, headed by Dr. Gordon B. Cleveland, have been rejected. New ones must be draw n up. Any new proposal for reorganizing the Student Affairs office must include significant student involvment in decision making. About the only way this can be done is through some type of board-perhaps a board to advise the head of the Student Affairs office. But, if this board can only advise, a dean or vice chancellor of Student Affairs could very well ignore its recommendations. Or such an administrator could choose the board in such a way as to make it simply a rubber stamp for all his actions, no matter how detrimental to student interests. Any such advisory board would have to have its student members chosen by the students themselves-not by the University administration or the faculty. The faculty should certainly chose its representatives, while the students should be accorded the same right. The new chancellor for the Chapel Hill in TED itt a SI 000 (when the maximum punishment for conviction was only a S50 fine), and the students were informed that no bail bondsmen would help them. "They are tired of people like you in this county," the magistrate said. The Pitt County Jerk then refused to certify property bonds raised by Greenville attorney Jerry Paul, legal counsel for the Pitt County coalition. Sine 44 protestors could not all be lit into the Ayden. 12 were shipped to Farmville. There, at the Farmville jail, thev were taunted, kept awake, harassed, and finally maced. although none had put up any resistance. They were quietly lvmsi locked in jail cells, jnd A were try ing to leep. According to John McCarthy, a student who was arrested, all the cs.ll windows were closed at 1 :30 a.m. Saturday, and twice in the next hour, the 14-1S5. Inducing ferrule persons to enter hotels or hoajdjrxhouse-s for immoral purpose.- Any pernor. hc shall knowingly persuade, induce or entice, ar.y women or girl to enter a hotel, public inn or board. rehouse for the purpose cf prositituion or debauchery or for ar.y other immoral purpose, shall be deemed guilty cf a misdemeanor, and. upon conviction, shall be punished in the discretion, of the court. 14-1S6. Opposite sexes occupying same bedroom at hotel for immoral purposes; falsely registering as husband and uife.-Ar.v Man and w err. an found occupying the same bedroom m anv hotel, public inn or hoardir.ghouse for any immoral purpose, or anv man and woman falsely registering as. or otherwise representing themselves to be. husband and wife in any hotel, public inn or hoardir.ghouse. shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor punishable bv a fine net to exceed five hundred dollars, imprisonment for not more than six months, or both. 14-192. Cutting or painting obscene word or pictures near public places. -It DMVl campus, who will have to implement any changes, needs to make it clear when and if such a board is established hat the board is to make policy for the Student Affairs office. It should also be made plain that the board should be a vehicle for remedying student grievances. Another method of insuring student policy-making involvment in the agencies affecting their lives would be to make the Student Health Service, Student Union and the Office of Residence Life autonomous units directly under the Chancellor. F.ach agency would have a professional director guided by a board made up of students and faculty. In this manner students could shape the agencies to conform to student needs. The structure doesn't really make a great deal of difference. The students must have effective means of providing input into the decision making processes which effect their lives while at the University. Whether this means the students should sit on a controlling board of directors or should hire the directors who head the agencies which serve them, students must be significantly involved. The Faculty Council took a few small hestitant steps toward involving students in academic decision making Friday. They should continue in that vein and demand student involvement in all departments. The Faculty also must recommend a reorganization of the Student Affairs office which will assure meaningful student participation in decisions without regard for personalities. window was opened a crack and clouds of blinding, choking gas were administered to the prisoners. According to the black, prisoners, this is a regular occurrence at the Farmville jail. Larly Saturday morning, the Farmville magistrate came to the jail offering a deal (none of the prisoners had been allowed to contact a lawyer)- pay S44 to him, and cases would be closed and they would be immediately released. The prisoners, tempted severely, refused. Later, six Chapel Hill professors raised SI 7.000 in bail and most of the prisoners were released, with all out by lte Saturday night. The closing words of the Farmville magistrate to them were. "If any more of you Chapel Hill people want to come down here, we've tot room for you -all the county jails are cooperating." I rial date at d.n District court is Dec. '. Coiinty shall he unlawful for any person to write, cut or carve any indecent word, or to paint, cut or carve any obscene or lewd representation, on any trre or bjfct near the public highway or ,.t ... places Any person U" f etion shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days. 14-195. Using profane or indecent Lmguaee on passenger traim.-lt shall be un.atul tor anv person, to curse or use profane or indecent language on any passenger tram. Any person v offending shall upon, conviction be fined not more than tsltv dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty day s. 14-19S. Lewd women within three miles of college and boarding schools. -If any loose woman or woman of ill farv shall commit any act of lewdness with or in the presence of any student, who is under twenty-one years old. o: any boarding house or college, within, ir.rce miles of such school or college, vie shall he gu.It y of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days. 14-201. Permitting stone-horses and stone-mules to run at large. -If any person shall let any stone-hore or stone-mule of two years old or upwards run at large, he shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars or imprisoned not exceeding thirtv davs Letter Donut lover gives advice To the editor: It was interesting to see m the Wednesday DTII a letter complaining about waiting for the Jethro lull concert and an article about the new Dunkin Donuts shop. Rock concerts since their inception have been notoriously late starting; and if one wanted to complain about having to wait, he should have gone after the concert to the "organized, service-oriented" Dunkin Donuts shop. Such a statement as 'service-oriert?J ' lends credence to the beliefs of those t us on the outside that the military is somewhat less than efficient. As for the free advertisement given the new all night rip-off establishment: I qua! time for th; competition. An r . self-respecting doughnut lover knows that Krispy Kreme, and the Dairy Bar (when they are fresh) make better doughnuts. The bourgeois Chapel Hill liberals will continue to frequent this new establishment, because it caters to their (the liberals') peculiar hours. F.ven though the manager is an avowed Rightist '"I liked to fight." Perhaps, we should boycott the place until he joins NC Vef. for Peace? Tad Smith Kingswood Apt.. Letlers The Daily Tar Heel accepts I m W T A arc in thA a i s-v (i a f a ul nrnv a i r y r m iter rv cionpn o anu uic auurcss ana pnone numoer .;. ui me wuicr iiiutsi oc inuuueu. The paper reserves the right to j:; edit all letters for libelous r . i . viaif mfnn inn orrwi Address letters to Editor, The : Daily Tar Heel, in care of the v Student Union. ignored So what have we learned from all th1 That Pitt County, North Carolina ha.s r. t yet come into the 20th century; that civ! rights of black people are continual.;, being denied, as racist police official -savagely put down protesters that only ask that justice be done in a legal manner to Billy Day; that trials by juries of one -peers be guaranteed to all in Nortu Carolina; and that criminal justice r. Ayden be reformed. Conditions such as those n- , i,, , ,lt ouniy tan no longer . - tolerated by the people of this state? Light law students put their careers the line in Ayden on Friday night, the least we can do is give our support, b demanding change in Pitt County, by participatin? in th Pitt County, and by writing to Governor Scott, asking when will you fire Bil'o Day?
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