The Bayit
Opinion,
Evans Witt, Editor
Saturday, September 16 1972
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One of the latest manifestations
of Chapel Hill's liberal traditions is
the recycling program begun
originally as small group efforts and
now sponsored by the town.
The town has set up recycling
centers at six locations in Chapel
Hill to collect newspapers and glass.
The materials collected at these
points are then sold to
manufacturers who use them to
produce more glass and more
newsprint.
Some interesting facts about the
amount of reusable material
consumed in Chapel Hill by both
townspeople and students were
published recently in a booklet
distributed with local telephone
bills this month.
The booklet estimates, for
example, that 40 tons of newsprint
enter Chapel Hill each
week 80,000 pounds of
newspapers. That's a lot of
newspapers and the DTH is a
considerable portion of that figure.
r3ut the discouraging point the
booklet makes is that only an
average of 6.25 tons of newsprint
DTH award
The Fence-Straddler Award To
two dairymen's lobby groups,
Associated Milk Producers Inc. and
Dairymen Inc., who contributed
money to the primary campaigns of
bottv Sen. B. Everett Jordan and his
opponent, Rep. Nick Galifianakis.
Letters to the
To the Editor: ,
Though I've had a few minor
difficulties with UNC in the past, none
have : been of consequence enough to
prompt a letter of indignation to the
DTH until now. Most of my strenuous
efforts of the past few years to develop
an aura of infallibility in the eyes of my
subjects have been nullified by my
showing in the DTH Football Picks. Last
year, not even knowing which team was
supposed to win, these dumb jocks fouled
everything up. So this year, I revealed my
new ' KNIPPLE (King Nyle's Infallible
Program for Prognosticating with Less
Errors). After correctly picking the
Carolina and State games, I lay
confidently back a perfect season now
only a matter of time. And now I find
myself 2-8! Centipedeshit! I demand an
IOC '(Invisible Olympic Committee)
Investigation so as to rightfully restore
my record to 2-0 (and perhaps credit for
some ' of the 6 other games, being as I
came within just a single point of picking
all of those correctly, also).
With Invisible Greatfulness,
King Nyle I
P.S. Well, how about at least 5y2-32 to
keep IUNC ahead of Epps' place?
Cross mistaken
about Palestine
To the Editor:
.'After reading Steve Cross's letter on
September 12, I .was amused by the
degree of imagination he used in
presenting his facts. In justice to the
readers, I must correct the major points
of his letter.
There are no "Defence (Emergency)
Regulations" dating from the British
occupation that are now being used to
drive thousands of Arabs into exile. The
Arabs that have left their homes did so
before and during the 1948 war. Most of
these people left when Arabic radio asked
villagers to leave their homes to allow the
advancing Jordanian and Egyptian armies
to make a clean sweep of the countryside.
The Arabs that have chosen to remain in
Israel have lived in peace with no fear of
paper
has been collected per week at
these recycling centers, about 15
per cent of the total entering the
town. This means that more than
60,000 pounds of easily reusable
newsprint is thrown in the garbage
here each week.
A similar waste is estimated in
the use of glass. The booklet says
approximately 50 tons of glass
enters Chapel Hill each week but
only seven to 10 tons is collected
and sold for refuse.
The ecology mania that swept
the country in the past few years
clearly went too far in some of its
suggestions, but the people of
Chapel Hill and UNC students just
as clearly have not appreciated the
waste they are creating each week
in just newsprint and glass.
Although, of course, there are
many other materials that can be
recycled, the glass and newsprint
situations are particularly
discouuging in light of the easy,
relatively cheap methods for reuse
and the demand for those used
materials.
There can be little excuse in not
recycling these materials the
depots for deposit are open 24
hours a day, seven days a week in
some cases. They are conveniently
located, including ones at the
Chapel Hill Municipal Building, the
Carrboro Town Hall, the No. 2 and
No. 3 Fire Stations.
Let's . try to end this gigantic
waste of glass and newsprint in
Chapel Hill recycle them.
editor
.Nyle demands Invisible Olympic Committee
being exiled. It is true that Israel has
moved some Arabs, from Gaza and other
occupied areas, to other locations in the
interest of safety. During the summer of
1971, the murder rate in Gaza was
averaging over 70 people a week. Most all
of these deaths were through the effort of
Mr. Cross's valiant "Freedom Fighters,"
who killed their brothers who would not
fight for the "Palestinian Cause." Now
Gaza is safe to live in.
Mr. Cross blatantly misinformed the
public with his statement that Arabs must
run on the tickets of Jewish Political
parties. In fact, the Arabs have been
encouraged to form nationwide parties
such as the Arab Communist Party that
now exists. Although this party's
platform is against the establishment of
the state of Israel, it has elected members
to the national parliament.
Civil law marriages are not yet law in
Israel, but every religious order has the
right, to perform marriage ceremonies
under Israeli law. This law does not
exclude any sect.
The Israeli government has always
been careful to insure that no religious
shrine, Christian, Moslem, or Jewish,
should ever be desecrated. I am not
familiar with Mr. Cross's vague example
from the 1950's. Contrary to this is the
fact that during the '67 War, Israel lost
more soldiers than necessary in an effort
to spare the religious shrines in the Old
City from possible destruction. One-sixth
of the total Israeli casualties occured in
Jerusalem alone, largely because Israel did
not use heavy artillery while advancing on
Jordanian strongholds. Nor has Israel
avenged the complete desecration of all
Jewish shrines in the Old City by
Jordanian troops.
If the goal of the Palestinian
"Freedom Fighters" is to construct a
secular state for Arabs and Jews, why do
they follow a path of destruction? Has
the death of 26 people at Lod airport; the
numerous hijacking and bombing
attempts; and the deaths of 11 Israelies
and one West German brought them any
closer to their goals? Only the most
misdirected minds operate at "this level.
These people are not "Freedom
Fighters." They act like social deviants
bent on violence as an outlet for their
frustrations caused by the failure of their
A week has passed since eleven
Israeli athletes and one German citizen
were murdered in Munich. We've had
enough time for much of our horror to
dissipate; perhaps enough time for many
to forget or to relegate the tragedy to a
category in our minds marked "so it
goes." And as we have seen, there has
certainly been enough time for various
elements in the world to divert the blame
for last week's tragedy from its rightful
recipients.
Can we listen to the Egyptian
government's assertion that the West
German police force was responsible for
the murders without questioning, "Are
we liable to submit to such deception?";
or, more importantly, "Have we already
submitted to such deception?" Can we
listen to Munich's Chief of Police, as he
verbally attacks Israel for refusing to
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Arab brothers to deal with reality in the
Middle East problems.
I believe there are possibilities for a
Middle East settlement, but violence will
only forstall any rational efforts. As long
as an immediate threat is present, how
can any people agree to lay down their
arms?
Wayne Gerber
923 Morrison
General shift to
right on campus
To the Editor:
The image of Chapel Hill as a bastion
of Southern liberalism suffered a serious
blow during the recent Olympiad, as
students, both long-haired and short,
showed their true colors: Red, white, and
blue, instead of the supposed light (baby)
blue and pink. The so-called radical
element could be seen in bars, in dorm
lobbies, in the privacy of their homes,
even on the sidewalk on Franklin Street,
cheering the forces of capitalism (the
"USA") versus the forces of Communism
(everybody else, who could not be told
apart on black and white television).
People cursed the Russians in
basketball, cursed the Russians in track;
cursed the East Germans and Italians in
diving; cursed the whole Iron Curtain in
gymnastics. Chapel Hill liberals could
. even be caught cheering white men to
knock out black men.
The true culprits were left
unscathed. Avery Brundage, the symbol
of fat American elitism, got in one more
lick before stepping down, but attention
was focused on the "casual posture" of
the track stars rather than the senile
bigotry of the IOC chairman. The U.S.
track, swimming, and gymnastics coaches
escaped virtually unscathed, when they in
fact should have been dismissed from all
further competition. And in basketball,
American coach Hank Iba is still coaching
in the 1940's; the American team, had it
played to even half its potential, could
have avoided the controversy of the
gold-medal game.
The editorial judgement of ABC, to
whom the IOC monopoly sold (shades of
professionalism) the television rights,
yield to the guerrilla demands, without
asking ourselves, "Have we lost our
powers of perception?" Will we allow
ourselves to be confused so that we can
see no possible action to stop future
terrorism? The world has ignored the
hijackings and attempted hijackings of
international flights; the world has
ignored the unremitting terrorist attacks
on innocent people in Israel? The world
has ignored the mass murders at Lod
Airport. And yes, the world is quite
capable of ignoring the latest murders.
But if the nations of the world are
sincerely committed to preventing
terrorism, the actions they will take are
obvious.
All relations with countries that aid
or harbor terrorists should be cut off
immediately, through the cessation of
economic aid to such countries and the
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deserves a few barbs. Aside from the
jingoistic coverage (how "many events
were shown in which an American did.
not compete?), the very continuity of the
games was wracked by commercials and
distorted to keep people up until the end
v by saving the best (either Mark Spitz, or
the end of the volleyball game) for last.
Texaco could well have spent less on their
extravaganzas trying, apparently, to
- outdo even Munich and made more
tasteful, less obnoxious commericals. Yes,
maybe they could have given a new one
each week, instead of showing the same
thing six times an hour,
i But how has the local public
V reacted? Boycotts of ABC and Texaco, or
outcries and rebellion against general
ineptitude and indifference by
' administrations and bureaucracies? No.
Instead, a general wave of chauvinism,
coupled, with a McCarthyistic red-scare
attitude, is rolling unchallenged across the
campus, and the students are rushing to
Woollen to begin training for the parallel
bars in Moscow, where they can really
give the Russians a beating.
Is this an indication of a general
shift' to the right on the UNC campus?
There seems evidence of less hair and
more bras than in previous years. Or
could it be a subtle tightening of
screening policies by the admissions staff,
combined with prohibitive tuition for
potential out-of-state agitators?
Tad Smith
Kingswood Apartments
Competition is
U.S. way of life
To the Editor:
.s Dear Mr. Thompson,
: On your question of America's
"megalomaniacal obsession with
winning," I submit to you this passing
thought.
When Duane Bobick was resoundingly
defeated in his match with the Russian
(sic) heavyweight, did you hear any
complaints about the way in which a gold
medal passed into the hands of a Russian?
No, you didn't not even a whimper
from Howard Cose 11. Did you hear any
halting of all economic transactions with
these nations. International flights into
these countries should be suspended.
Only with the consent (and sometimes
approval) of certain nations can the
numerous terrorist groups continue to
exist. It is no longer in question that
Libya gives aid directly to Arab terrorists
and the likelihood is that Syria does also.
Egypt's refusal to help save niie lives last
week can be construed only as approval
of the guerilla actions.
The Lebanese government continues
to turn its back on the terrorists who
station themselves in that country and
who are constantly attacking Israeli
settlements. If the Lebanese government
refuses to take action to stop these
guerillas, it this not an undeclared state of
war with Israel? And if Lebanon claims
she is incapable of stopping the terrorists,
complaints about the way in which Jim
Ryun lost his chance to run against Kip
Keino? No, you didn't and ABC went to
special lengths to illustrate why Jim Ryun
fell down and how it was clearly his fault.
In fact, Mr. Thompson, if you remember,
no complaints were made about any
American who lost under the rules. That,
Mr. Thompson, is where the rub lies.
Bob Seagren was defeated because the
fiberglass pole was declared illegal three
days before competition began. Why?
because he was .unbeatable with the
fiberglass pole; so, the East Germans raise
a fuss in order to win. Is that in the rules,
Mr Thompson? Two Americans were
disqualified from any future Olympics
because of acts unbecoming an Olympic
athlete. Mr. Thompson, is that in the
rules? The Olympics are supposed to be a
field of athletic events, not an arena
where one's loyalty to his country is
tested. I will, though, concede to you the
points about the American sprinters being
late and the illegal medicine for one of
our swimmers with the results being that
the runners were disqualified from their
special event and the swimmer had to give
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Evans Witt, Editor
79 Years
of
Editorial Freedom
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then she should allow another force of
her own choosing to do the job for her.
These nations have shown their
unwillingness to act. There is no reason to
suspect they will act unless pressured to
do so. This is the obligation the nations
of the world face. Israel has waited
almost twenty-five years for the world to
respond and act. Her waiting has so far
been unrewarded. But if nations are
sincerely committed to halting terrorism,
they will act decisively. If, indeed, the
world is sincerely committed.
The Bayit invites the public to its
Mezzuzzah ceremony, or house
dedication, and open house this Sunday
at 2 p.m. Location is The Bayit's bayit,
110 Barnes Street, in Carrboro, off Jones
Ferry Road.
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his gold medal back. Alright - these
people did disobey the rules but think
of how trivial 30 minutes and prescribed
medicine are at the "Olympics of
Serenity." Does not one smell a rat
somewhere?
And finally, Mr. Thompson,
concerning the theft of a gold medal that
should have been ours due to the efforts
of our basketball players. Mr. Thompson,
get yourself a stopwatch and a rulebook
- and if after looking at the replay of
that game, you can find for me a clause in
the rulebook that allows a referee to give
a team three extra seconds and two
chances at a basket, then I will concede
my argement to you.
You are confusing an American way of
life (competition) with legitimate
complaints about blatantly illegal actions
taken against the American teams in
Munich. But, Mr. Thompson, the
Olympics will go on and so will you - so
don't fret, it only takes a smile to make
the world seem a whole lot better. Hive a
nice day.
John Richardson
302 Pritchard Avenue
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