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Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are 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 22. 1971
Interim
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The Consolidated University
Board of Trustees will meet today to
select the 16 UNC representatives
for the interim Board of Governors
that will begin work in January as a
planning committee for the new
restructured system of higher
education.
One of those 16 should be a
student.
At present, each of the student
body presidents on the six campuses
of the Consolidated University now
serve as ex officio members of the
100-membcr board of trustees.
Through their positions, they are
able to provide at least some input
into the board's general policies.
However, if a student is not
included among the 16, that input
will be lost, and students will be right
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Profe)
Remember how many problems this
new academic calendar was supposed to
solve?
You weren't going to have to worry
about exams or term papers over the
Christinas break since all those would
already be over.
Professors would not be able to assign
papers and give tests before and after
both the Thanksgiving and Christmas
vacations. The profs would only have the
Thanksgiving holidays to use as a bufferin
for their conscience in assigning three
term papers and two tests within a period
of 10 days.
"Oh certainly you will have to come
back to school a few weeks earlier than
usual - like in August but just think
about getting rid of those exams before
going home for a couple of weeks
vacation," the argument went for the new
schedule.
Gerry Cohen
Nixon
Most of us remember back in 1965
when Lyndon Johnson told the American
people of the tremendous atrocities that
were being committed by the North
Vietnamese upon the people of South
Vietnam.
Revelations of the past week, however,
lead me to ask exactly what point we are
now pressing in Vietnam.
The report out of Saigon was of an
Operation Fhoenix, designed by the U.S.
Army to eliminate Vietcong operatives.
The program consisted of the systematic
execution and torture of over 1000
Vietnamese whom the Army had
determined were Vietcong political
agents.
The commander of the program, an
American general, denied that Phoenix
breached any international law. A wire
service report, which appeared in many
board.
student
back where they were before their
representatives were named to the
CU board living under regulations
they had absolutely no voice in
making.
The argument that minorities
should be represented on the Board
of Governors has been pushed by
Gov. Bob Scott as well as others in
the state.
However, no one has recognized
the student minority, a group that is
more deserving of representation
than any other. It is the students
who are paying for their education,
and they deserve the right to help
protect their own interests when the
new board begins setting down plans
for higher education in North
Carolina this spring.
It has been argued that most of
the board's decisions will not be of
direct concern to students, but that
argument is totally unjustified.
Every decision made over higher
education affects every student in
state-supported universities.
The N.C. General Assembly
endorsed the concept of student
representation on governing boards
when it made the six student body
presidents ex officio members of the
CU board of trustees.
And since they were named to the
board, the student members have
served ably, not only protecting the
interests of the students in the six
schools, but also in protecting the
interests of the Consolidated
University.
They have also provided members
of the board who no longer maintain
close ties with the college campuses
with a look at prevailing student
attitudes and needs.
If the board is truly concerned
over the fate of students when the
UNC System takes over, it will insure
today that they will indeed be
represented.
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That was the way the calendar was
supposed to work all for the benefit of
the students and a sacrifice for the
professors. And we students just ate it up.
We thought it was going to be the greatest
thing that has hit this campus since
visitaion.
Somehow it hasn't quite turned out
that way.
To start with, there is now a nice long,
uninterrupted stretch of academic efforts
from the last of August to Thanksgiving
an unbroken stretch of class effort, or
lack of it, for almost three months.
That three month stretch is the longest
period of classes uninterrupted by
"vacations" in the academic calendar
new or old. If the attention span of the
college student is only as long as some
professors claim it is about 20 minutes
- to throw a three month stretch of
classes at us is ridiculous.
should
state newspapers, had the General saying,
"they were only animals anyway, so it
wasn't really murder."
Now that the army has the power to
summarily indict, try and execute (put to
sleep?) any Vietnamese at will, we are
safe from Communist subversion.
In 1965, we were told that the
barbarism of the North Vietnamese was
beyond belief, yet our own barbarism
surely matches that of political terrorists
of 10 years ago.
Nixon insists we must remain in
Vietnam until all American POW's are
released, and a residual force must be left
in Vietnam indefinately. Meanwhile, we
end American combat deaths by replacing
them with deaths in the crack South
Vietnamese army (those slope eyes don't
count as people, anyway).
" by Lam Starnes
and
Dr. Takey Crist
Question: This is a serious question.
We were wondering if it is possible for a
man, paralyzed from the waist down, to
have an erection. If it is possible, could he
ejaculate? Signed, Granville South.
Dear Granville South: Every question
is a serious question. Despite what some
neurological textbooks say, 90 percent of
paraplegics can have an erection and can
have intercourse, but they cannot
ejaculate.
Question: I have a friend who has
recently been put on the pill (Norinyl).
She says that the pill is effective after
taking it for seven days, however, some of
her friends say she must take it for one
complete cycle. Who is correct? Also,
someone said that if you have a blood
test, they can tell if you are on the pill. Is
this true? Signed, Pill Wonderer.
Dear Pill Wonderer: Some physicians
believe that if you start on the fifth day
of your period and take your pill every
day, you will be safe. Others believe that
you must take the pill for at least two
weeks before you are safe. We know of
no blood test that can tell if a girl is on
the pill.
Question: My problem is that I am
unable to achieve orgasm through vaginal
stimulation. My only fulfillment is
through clitoral stimulation. Can you
explain why this should be the case and
what, if anything, I could do to reach
orgasm during intercourse? Signed,
Concerned Coed.
Dear Concerned Coed: This question is
asked over and over again and has long
been debated in literature 'Is there a
difference between vaginal and clitoral
orgasm? Most sexologists today believe
that the findings of Masters and Johnson
Letters to the editor
Rep
To the editor:
Keith Weatherly appears to have gift
for metaphor, but, sadly, not for
equanimity. I found his reaction to Rep.
Bella Abzug's address to be rash and
prejudiced. His diatribe against women's
rights is his most inconsequential
argument, and I do not feel I have to
speak against his position which seems
to be one of uncomfortable squirming.
But in reference to his "Vietnam
turnip" that shameful and inhumane
war which had laid America low in the
eyes of the civilized world does Mr.
Weatherly find it glorious that we support
a government that holds a presidential
"election" totalitarian style? Yet he
would denounce Israel as "imperialistic"
because she has acquired (in self-defense)
t adapt
But the most aggravating aspect about
this new calendar is the way some
professors are refusing to adapt to it.
It seems like some professors have just
not adjusted their schedule of giving tests,
assigning papers and setting due dates for
reading from the old schedule.
They have just loafed along for these
first three months of the semester as they
were accustomed to doing under the old
calendar. A test dropped in here, a
mid-term there and an occasional quiz
were in the same old time-worn pattern
from the old calendar.
But, along about the last of October or
the first of November, some of these
crusty old profs began to wake up to the
realities of the new system.
They began to realize that they only
had six weeks left in the semester and
that only a fifth of the material of the
course had been touched.
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set a date for troop withdrawal
Whatever happened to tne North
Vietnamese seven-point peace proposal of
last April, and why haven't we accepted
it? The North Vietnamese have made it
fairly clear that they will release all
American prisoners when we set a date,
Nixon will set a date only when the
prisoners are released.
Meanwhile, the POW families are used
as tools by the cynical Nixon
administration's PR campaign to keep us
in Vietnam.
Why doesn't Nixon just set a date, and
take the North Vietnamese up on their
offer. For god sakes, Dick, if you agree to
pull out January 1, and the North
Vietnames refuse to release the prisoners,
then you are all set, and could perhaps
even make a good case for taking direct
action against the North Vietnamese. Of
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have dispelled the myth that women have
two kinds of orgasm.
From a physiological point of view,
clitoral stimulation produces a somewhat
stronger orgasmic response than does
indirect stimulation of the clitoria, via
vaginal penetration. Many women are
unable to achieve orgasm in any manner
other than direct stimulation of the
clitoral area. This is normal.
ella Ahzug
land strategically necessary for survival.
Israel is a small nation surround on three
sides by hostile countries which have
vowed to drive her into the sea; now, for
the first time, Israel has territory like the
Golan Heights, from which the Arabs
have, for decades, fired upon the
kibbutzim.
To accuse Mrs. Abzug of supporting
Israel because it is a predominantly
Jewish nation is simply shabby. Mr.
Weatherly seems to have forgotten that
many other politicians, who do not
"happen" to be Jewish among them
Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy -have
come to the support of Israel as a
small nation of threatened existence.
As for "Fun" City, I invite Mr.
Weatherly to walk down some of her
to new
Immediately these faculty came out of
the musty offices with pronouncements
of quizzes to be given this Wednesday.
Term paper due dates were set for
Nov. 29, the day we get back from
Thanksgiving "vacation" or soon
thereafter.
Monumental reading assignments
appeared on the black boards behind old
professors who lectured from their
dog-eared, yellowed three by five
notecards to their sleeping students.
It seems like almost every course in
the University suddenly had a quiz
scheduled for Dec. 2. And what's the last
day quizzes can be given? That's right,
Dec. 2.
Granted that most of the course work
on this campus is done by students in the
last two weeks of class, the professors just
seem to be determined to fill those two
weeks with lovely other duties like 15
course, tne reason Nixon does not set a
date is because he knows the North
Vietnamese will release our POW's,
leaving him with no further justification
for continuing the war.
As tor the agruement that we can't
withdraw precipitously because the North
Vietnamese would massacre us as we
leave, this notion is absurd when we
examine it closely.
If the North Vietnamese government
had as its main goal the exit of the U.S.
from Indochina, it would do all icould to
geus out as fast as possible.
So why would u anacjc us as wc
withdraw, thus incurring a U.S.
reinvohement? Obviously they wouldn't
(not so obvious my critics would say, but
it's obviously a matter of opinion).
If you really want peace, Mr. Nixon,
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Question: I would like the following
information in regard to the susceptibility
of women to the measels. If one has had
the measels is it possible to catch them
again? Where could a student wife receive
the blood test and vaccination for the
measels? What is the charge? Is it
necessary to postpone pregnancy for any
specific time after taking th preventive
vaccine. Signed, Thank You.
offered a
congested ghetto streets, to thread his
way along the pitifully overcrowded
corridors of Bellevue Hospital, to see the
debris-strewn lots where small children
play and where teenagers are accosted by
drug addicts. That Mrs. Abzug spoke with
passion about the need to rechannel
government spending is understandable
when our cities are crumbling, we can't
afford luxuries like napalm.
Mrs. Abzug did nothing more than tell
us that we, the people (to quote another
liberal democrat) must use our
Constitutional rights to improve and
save our country. That was trie solution
she offered, the one which Mr. Weatherly
was so "hard pressed to find." I am sorry
to see him slap the label of
"pseudo-sophisticated claptrap" on Mrs.
gystem
page term papers and little five page book
reports.
The point is that the new academic
calendar is really a good idea. The new
system has a lot of advantages for the
students with the one disadvantage of
three straight months of academics. But
that disadvantage can be worked out with
little individual, extended week-end
vacations during those months.
Professors on this campus are going to
have to wake up to the fact that one of
their ingrained rhythms of life has
changed and that they are going to have
to change with it. It might almost kill
some professors to move from their long
accustomed ruts.
The students bear the burden of the
professors' refusal to change with the
system. It is the students who need to
pressure their teachers into the new
rhythm of academics at UNC.
why don't you try the Vietcong peace
plan. You have nothing to lose, except
perhaps the big defense industry
contributions to your campaign.
But what's a few dead GI's, anyway.
45,030 doesn't look any bigger than
45,000 in the history books.
Let's wind down Nixon when we wind
down the war.
recent criticism in the DTH letters
column of the Chapel Hill police
department is an accusation that they are
systematically eliminating parking spaces.
The reductions in parking were carried
out by the police department, it is true,
but by order of the Board of Aldermen.
In the last two months, the town Board
has passed several ordinances cutting back
on-street parking. That's democracy,
folks.
Dear Thank You: In the adu':
population only S5 percent arc thegh;
to have a high level of inun unity x-i
15 percent are considered ; -e
susceptible. Vaccination of prec-.i-:
women is contraindicated ur.ier i:
circumstances.
The best time for persons -e
vaccinated is immediately post ?:-.r.
(after delivery) and patients seer. :r?
premarital examinations who hi.;
negative antibody titers, When pit---,
axe given the vaccine it is advise d
they not become pregnant for it
two months.
A student wife could recede ;.
blood test and vaccination through
Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology
N.C. Memorial Hospital or through
Student Health Services or through
of the private physicians in town.
Question: ...Is there a vpec;i!
department at UNC Hospital to treat
students for V.D. and if so how J0 1
reach them? It is awfully embarassing to
go into the infirmary seeking advice. I
would appreciate your advice very much
as soon as possible. Signed R.C.
Dear R.C: You may go to any tv :
health departments in this area or ou
may make an appointment with th;
Medical Screening Clinic by cillrg
966-223 1 , or you may call the
Committee for Human Seua!;;.
933-5201.
For the letter and newspaper clspp rg
that we received from Mr. L.E.G.. than,
you very much for your kir :.!
consideration.
(Questions sfiould be addressed ;
Lara Stames and Dr. Takey Crist, in car?
of The Daily Tar Heel, Student L'ninr.
Cliapel Hill, N.C 27514.)
COPYRIGHT (C) 1971 by Lana
Starnes and Dr. Takey Crist. All rights
reserved .
solution
Abzug's speech, because he does not like
her interpretation of patriotism. Her
"starry-eyed idealism," which Mr.
Weatherly is so quick to criticize, is
simply faith in a country that has the
potential for greatness. I pray that
everone who heard her speak will share
that faith..
Jane S. Gabi.n
Craige 309
Election farce
carried too far
To the Editor:
Your editorial on campus elections
deserves comment:
Each year the student body is
bombarded with a pile of trash, an Ipana
smile and ear full of bull as campus
politicos dance around senselessly urging
deification of their egos in a high-school
like mock democracy. Face it - you
insecure blabber-mouths - all you are
doing is wasting your time and bothering
me. The facts are that 4 out of 5 students
don't vote in any of these farces. Almost
every student here would vastly prefer
dividing up the million dollars that's
spent during one's tenure by Student
Government and using it for drink or
smoke. This entire charade has been
carried too far. Who cares who wins?
What difference does it make?
If you ask me, spending one's college
career being involved in Student
Government is a waste of an opportunity
for an education. The mouthings by
campus politicos does little to change
anything. It would be much more
democratic to have a vote on Student
Government itself. But then, what would
happen? The same thing that happens
right now.
Arlan P. Garvey
600 N. Greensboro Street
Carrboro
To reiterate my stand taken at the last
meeting of the Chancellor's student stores
committee (of which I am a member). I
do not favor running the student stores at
break -even so as to lower prices. It is true
that the student stores rips off everyone
for SI 4.83 per year in profits, however,
$14.83 returned to any one student
makes little difference. But taking away
the $350 dollars on average that each of
600 students receive as scholarships could
easily mean the difference between
attending school and dropping out.
Adding to my point, let me simply say
that redistribution of income, like
charity, begins at home.
Deadline for voter registration for the
May primaries is April 7. Register early
and avoid the rush Tuesdays,
Thursdays, Thursday nights and Saturday
mornings.